Actinidia faveolata

Actinidia faveolata is an extinct species in the kiwifruit genus, Actinidia.

Actinidia faveolata Temporal range: Upper Oligocene - Upper Pleistocene, 28.1–1 Mya PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Actinidiaceae
Genus:	Actinidia
Species:	A. faveolata
Binomial name
Actinidia faveolata C.Reid and E.M.Reid

Fossil record

Fossil pollen of Actinidia faveolata have been recovered from early Pleistocene sediments in Ludham east of Wroxham, East Anglia. Actinidia faveolata was then part of a plant community in Ludham of many exotic and among them now many extinct species such as: Eucommia europaea, Phellodendron elegans (extinct cork-tree), Menispermum dahuricum (extinct moonseed), Magnolia kobus (the Kobushi magnolia), Physalis alkekengi (bladder cherry), Decodon globosus (extinct waterwillow), Corema intermedia (extinct broom crowberry), Laserpitium siler (laserwort). A seed fragment of Actinidia faveolata, was found in Pleistocene fluvial sediments, which form part of the Cromer Forest-bed Formation, below the modern beach southeast of Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK. Previously, remains of this extinct species have been found in Upper Oligocene sediments from West Siberia and from Miocene, Pliocene and Early Pleistocene sediments in Europe among else from sediments in the southwest of the Netherlands.[1][2][3][4]

References

1. Field, Michael Hugh (2012). "The first British record of Actinidia faveolata C.Reid and E.M.Reid (Actinidiaceae family)". Quaternary International. 271: 65–9. Bibcode:2012QuInt.271...65F. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.029.
2. http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201500210466%5B%5D
3. http://research.leiden.edu/news/dating-of-old-english-finds-uncertain.html%5B%5D
4. Godwin, Harry (1975) [1956]. History of the British Flora: A Factual Basis for Phytogeography (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-26941-4.