Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora

English

Noun

Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora

1. A hypothesized floral assemblage that once covered the Northern Hemisphere, from roughly the late Mesozoic to mid Cenozoic Eras.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 312:

     We touch down beside Luigi’s oak, which is growing in a grassy woodland surrounded by palms, ginkgoes and magnolias, as well as chestnuts, oaks and beech; courtesy of climate change, the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora is well on its way to re-establishing in Europe.