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Erdei, B. ; Kvaček, Z.: A newly recovered collection of the Early Miocene flora of Kymi (Greece) previously misinterpreted as the Upper Miocene flora of Tállya (NE Hungary)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 89. Budapest, 1997 pp. 5-10. A newly recovered collection of the Early Miocene flora of Kymi (Greece) previously misinterpreted as the Upper Miocene flora of Tállya (NE Hungary) ERDEI, B.

1 &Z. KVAÍEK

2 1 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1

087 Budapest, Könyves Kálmán krt. 40, Hungary Department of Palaeontology, Charles University Albertov 6, Praha 2, Czech Republic ERDEI, B. & KVAÍEK, Z. (1997): A newly recovered collection of the Early Miocene flora of Kymi (Greece) previously misinterpreted as the Upper Miocene flora of Tállya (NE Hungary). - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 89: 5-10. Abstract - A collection of Tertiary plants from 1875, kept in the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest without indicated locality was wrongly interpreted by KLÁRA RÁSKY, the keeper of the collection, as coming from the Upper Miocene flora of Tállya. The type of formated pieces of marl, the composition of the flora and the composition of the ostracod assemblage differ from all known data from this part of the Hungarian Upper Miocene. On the other hand, the material exactly matches collections from the last century distributed into various European museums from Kymi situated on the Island of Evia (Euboia), Greece. This Early Miocene flora includes a quite characteristic and partly endemic assemblage, which is also typical of the collection at hand. With 9 figures. INTRODUCTION Hungary is quite rich in Upper Miocene palaeontological localities. Most of them are situated in northeastern Hungary in the Tokaj-Eperjes Mountains (Fig. 1). Two sites, Erdőbénye and Tállya, yielded plant fossils on which several widely spread woody elements were described for the first time. GYULA KOVÁTS was the first who studied the floras of Erdőbénye and Tállya in the middle of the last century. His results were published in 1856, entitled "Fossile Flora von Erdőbénye" and "Fossile Flora von Tállya" (KOVÁTS 1856«, b). His rival as regards the study of the floras in Erdőbénye and Tállya anyway, CONSTANTIN VON ETTINGSHAUSEN, also published a study entitled "Beitrag zur Kenntniss der fossilen Flora von Tokaj" three years earlier (ETTINGSHAUSEN 1853). However, he considered the flora of Erdőbénye and Tállya to be equivalent floristically, and united them as the flora of Tokaj. Even D. STUR dealt with these two floras in his work "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flora der Süsswasserquarze der Congerien- und Cerithien-Schichten im Wiener und Ungarischen Becken" (STUR 1867). The most detailed and well-known work is GÁBOR ANDREÁNSZKY'S