Fossil mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal - a window into the Mesozoic history of Bryophytes
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F23%3A10136355" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/23:10136355 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://fi.nm.cz/en/clanek/fossil-mosses-from-the-early-cretaceous-catefica-mesofossil-flora-portugal-a-window-into-the-mesozoic-history-of-bryophytes-2/" target="_blank" >http://fi.nm.cz/en/clanek/fossil-mosses-from-the-early-cretaceous-catefica-mesofossil-flora-portugal-a-window-into-the-mesozoic-history-of-bryophytes-2/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/fi.2023.006" target="_blank" >10.37520/fi.2023.006</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fossil mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal - a window into the Mesozoic history of Bryophytes
Original language description
A diverse assemblage of mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal, is described based on fragments of charcoalified and lignitized gametophytes and a single spore capsule. Nine different gametophyte morphologies are recognized and assigned to Sphagnopsida, Polytrichopsida and Bryopsida. None of the fossils can be included in any extant species. Four species have character combinations not known in any extant genera and are accommodated in three new genera as Chlorosphagnum cateficense gen. et sp. nov. (Sphagnales, family incertae sedis), Physcidium tortuosum gen. et sp. nov. and Physcidium simsimiae sp. nov. (Diphysciales, Diphysciaceae), and Canaliculidium fissuratum gen. et sp. nov. (Dicranales, Leucobryaceae). Three other species can be assigned to extant genera and are described here as Polytrichastrum incurvum sp. nov. (Polytrichales, Polytrichaceae), Dicranodontium minutum sp. nov. and Campylopus lusitanicus sp. nov. (both Dicranales, Leucobryaceae). One additional specimen has features suggesting affinity with Leucobryaceae but lacks characters critical for a definite generic placement. A single spore capsule is unassigned but is similar to capsules of members of the Ditrichaceae (Dicranales). All the fossil mosses recognised in the Catefica mesofossil flora are assigned to orders of extant mosses that diverged prior to the diversification of the Bryidae, the most diverse clade of living mosses. Based on extrapolations from their nearest living relatives, the Catefica mosses likely grew in more or less open environments, and in moist or wet sites that were primarily of low pH and low nutrient status.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10506 - Paleontology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Fossil Imprint
ISSN
2533-4050
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
79
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
103-125
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85182944325