The fossil macroflora of the Vulche Pole Molasse formation (SE Bulgaria)

Abstract

Thirty-eight species of material originating from the uppermost sediments of the Vulche Pole Molasse formation (SE Bulgaria) have been found (two taxa of the same material have been determined up to genus level). The species Myrica kymeana, Zanthoxylum juglandinum and Sapindus graecus have been registered for the first time for the Bulgarian fossil flora. On the basis of the dominant role of Lauraceae and the ancient species Macclintockia basinervis in the composition of that flora, the age of the flora-bearing sediments was presumed to be rather late Oligocene than the formerly considered late Oligocene-early Miocene.