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The Cretaceous floras of northern Asia represented by the Antibes flora of the Chulym-Yenisei area of West Siberia, Kaivayam flora of northwestern Kamchatka, and Grebenka flora of the Anadyr River basin in Chukotka are reviewed. These floras characterize the Late Cretaceous Siberian-Canadian Paleofloristic Region, where they developed in humid warm temperate climatic environments. Two new angiosperm genera are described: genus Chachlovia P. Alekseev et Herman with species C. kiyensis P. Alekseev, sp. nov. and C. dombeyopsoida (Herman) Herman, comb. nov. and genus Soninia Herman et Shczepetov with species S. asiatica P. Alekseev, sp. nov. and S. integerrima Herman et Shczepetov, sp. nov. The species Chachlovia kiyensis and Soninia asiatica were characteristic components of the Antibes flora. Chachlovia dombeyopsoida and Soninia integerrima were constituents of the Kaivayam and Grebenka floras, respectively.
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Original Russian Text © P.I. Alekseev, A.B. Herman, S.V. Shchepetov, 2014, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2014, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 57–69.
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Alekseev, P.I., Herman, A.B. & Shchepetov, S.V. New angiosperm genera from cretaceous sections of northern Asia. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 22, 606–617 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593814050025
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