Fossil angiosperms from the Åsen locality of Scania, southern Sweden
Else Marie Friis
The study of the plant assemblage from the Åsen locality (link to the database) has been conducted by E.M. Friis and collaborators over the last 25 years and includes descriptive work as well as studies of general aspects of diversity patterns and reproductive biology in Late Cretaceous flowers. The most significant fossils in the Åsen assemblages are remnants of angiosperms, but the flora is also rich in organs from other plant groups. Non-angiospermous plant fragments include fragile axes of mosses, twigs and megaspores of selaginellaceous lycopods, megaspores of isoetalean affinity, fertile and vegetative fragments of ferns, and a considerable diversity of conifers represented by twigs, cones, pollen sacs and seeds.Publications on Åsen material
Coworkers:
Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, Aarhus
Jürg Schönenberger, Zürich
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