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A paper by M.G. Moiseeva et al. on the Ayanka flora from the nonmarine Cretaceous of Northeast Asia is critically reviewed. It is shown that this paleofloristic object cannot be considered as a paleoflora since taphofloras composing it are significantly different in their systematic composition, and the stratigraphic relations of their host deposits are uncertain. The authors of the paper under review believe that all three paleofloristic assemblages of the “Ayanka flora” are Santonian–Campanian in age which seems to be not quite justified.
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The author expresses his sincere gratitude to I.L. Zhulanova (North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) and E.Yu. Baraboshkin (Moscow State University) for valuable comments on the text and illustrations of this contribution.
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This work was performed within the framework of the state assignment for the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Fossil Plants of Russia and Adjacent Territories: Systematics, Phylogeny, Paleofloristics, and Paleophytogeography” (no. 122011900029-7).
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Shczepetov, S.V. The Ayanka Flora from the Upper Cretaceous of Northeastern Russia. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 30, 578–585 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593822060090
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