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This paleobotany list records new fossil plant taxa that were to be described during the year 2012, as well as notes other significant paleobotany discoveries and events which occurred during 2012.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Ignatov et al | A moss of uncertain placement. | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Dunn et al. | Pride Mountain Formation | A member of Isoetales belonging to the group Chaloneriaceae. Genus includes new species W. tuscumbiana. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Guo et al. | Devonian (Pragian) | A liverwort belonging to the family Aneuraceae. Genus includes new species R. devonicus. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Vera & Passalia | A fern of uncertain phylogenetic placement. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Vera | Cerro Negro Formation | An Osmundaceae fern. Originally placed in Millerocaulis ; | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Escapa & Cúneo | A member of Osmundaceae. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Escapa & Cúneo | A member of Osmundaceae. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Кokala Suite | |||||
Anomozamites heeri [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Pott et al. | Probably late Middle Jurassic | A member of Bennettitales. Originally described as a species of Anomozamites | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | ||||
Cycadolepis karatauensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis kirillii [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis kokalensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis lata [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis maija [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis multistomata [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis pachydermatica [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis perfecta [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis prynadае [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Cycadolepis schairensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Кokala Suite | |||||
Nilssoniopteris localis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Nilssoniopteris saveljevii [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) | Tonasha Formation | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | ||||
Pterophyllum doludenkoae [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Pterophyllum originalum [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Pterophyllum pаrvisegmentatum [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Pterophyllum pinniforme [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Pterophyllum valentinaeа [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Pterophyllum vsevolodii [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | ||||
Williamsonia baranovaeа [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Williamsonia chagaensе [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Williamsonia kokalensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Williamsonia vialovaea [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | |||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) | Karadiirmen' Formation | A member of Pteridospermatophyta of uncertain affinities. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ryberg, Taylor & Taylor | Late Permian | Upper Buckley Formation | A member of Glossopteridales. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Naugolnykh & Sidorov | A seed fern belonging to the family Peltaspermaceae. Genus includes new species K. pedatum. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Ryberg, Taylor & Taylor | Late Permian | Beacon Supergroup (upper Buckley Formation) | A seed fern belonging to the group Dictyopteridiales and the family Eretmoniaceae. Genus includes new species L. ramulus. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ryberg, Taylor & Taylor | Late Permian | Beacon Supergroup (upper Buckley Formation) | A member of Glossopteridales belonging to the family Dictyopteridiaceae. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Naugolnykh | A seed fern belonging to the group Peltaspermales. Genus includes new species V. rombicum. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Кokala Suite | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Gnaedinger | ||||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Zhou, Quan, & Liu | upper Paleocene | An extinct species in the modern genus Ginkgo | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova | Middle Jurassic | A member of Ginkgoales. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Dong & Sun | ||||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) | Кokala Suite | ||||
Ginkgoites irdalicus [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic | Ergozi Suite | |||
Ginkgoites kelendensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) | Tonasha Formation | |||
Ginkgoites ketovianus [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) | Sarydiirmeny Suite | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) | Karadiirmen' Formation | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) | Karadiirmen' Formation | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Dettmann, Clifford & Peters | A member of the family Araucariaceae. Genus includes new species E. microcarpa. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Mohr et al. | Early Cretaceous | A possible member of Cheirolepidiaceae. The type species is Duartenia araripensis. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Gomez, Ewin & Daviero-Gomez | Early Cretaceous (Barremian) | A conifer. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Shi, Zhou, & Xie | Oligocene | A Calocedrus species | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | He, Sun & Liu | Late Miocene | Originally placed in Fokienia . | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Rothwell et al. | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) | Kimmeridge Clay Formation | A member of Pinaceae. The type species is Eathiestrobus mackenziei. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Klymiuk & Stockey | A spruce species seed cone. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ryberg et al. | Speeton Clay Formation | A pine. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Wilf | A species of Dacrycarpus | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Kokala Suite | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Kokala Suite | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Nosova & Kiritchkova in Kiritchkova & Nosova | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | Kokala Suite | A conifer of uncertain affinities. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Feng et al. | Lower Shihhotse Formation | A conifer of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species P. hulstaiense. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Kiritchkova & Nosova | Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) | Karadiirmen' Formation | A cycad. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Pott et al. | A seed plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species R. anisolobus. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Alekseev | ||||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Estrada-Ruiz et al. | Late Cretaceous (probably early to middle Maastrichtian) | A member of the family Celastraceae. Genus includes new species B. armendarisense. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Friis & Pedersen | An asterid. Genus includes new species B. scanicus. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Alekseev | ||||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Alekseev | ||||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Feng & Jin | Changchang Basin | A fossil fruit. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Alekseev | ||||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Manchester, Chen & Lott | Early Oligocene | A species of Cissus . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Hermsen, Gandolfo & Zamaloa | A species of Eucalyptus . | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Gandolfo & Zamaloa in Hermsen, Gandolfo & Zamaloa | A species of Eucalyptus . | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Gandolfo & Hermsen in Hermsen, Gandolfo & Zamaloa | A species of Eucalyptus . | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Estrada-Ruiz et al. | Late Cretaceous (probably early to middle Maastrichtian) | A member of the family Myrtaceae. Genus includes new species F. armendarisense. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Alekseev | ||||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Boonchai & Manchester | Early Eocene | A member of Lauraceae described on the basis of fossil wood. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Litsea . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Beilschmiedia . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Cryptocarya . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Cryptocarya . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Beilschmiedia . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Beilschmiedia . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Cryptocarya . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Beilschmiedia . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae with affinities to members of the genus Cryptocarya . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bannister, Conran & Lee | Early Miocene | A member of Lauraceae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Güner & Denk | A species of Mahonia . | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Güner & Denk | A species of Mahonia . | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Shi et al. | Changchang Formation | A species of Morinda . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Pan et al. | Early Miocene | A species of Newtonia . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Stull in Stull et al. | Middle-late Paleocene | A member of Icacinaceae belonging to the tribe Phytocreneae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Stull in Stull et al. | Late Paleocene | A member of Icacinaceae belonging to the tribe Phytocreneae. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Estrada-Ruiz et al. | Late Cretaceous (probably early to middle Maastrichtian) | A magnoliid of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species P. paucipora. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Stull in Stull et al. | Late early Oligocene | A species of Pyrenacantha . | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Mohr, Coiffard & Bernardes-de-Oliveira | Early Cretaceous (Aptian) | Fossil magnolialean angiosperm. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Boonchai & Manchester | Early Eocene | A member of Canellaceae described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species W. edenense. | ||||
Glossopteris is the largest and best-known genus of the extinct Permian order of seed plants known as Glossopteridales. The genus Glossopteris refers only to leaves, within a framework of form genera used in paleobotany. Species of Glossopteris were the dominant trees of the middle to high-latitude lowland vegetation across the supercontinent Gondwana during the Permian Period. Glossopteris fossils were critical in recognizing former connections between the various fragments of Gondwana: South America, Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.
Gleichenia is a genus of ferns. Its closest relative is the genus Stromatopteris, restricted to New Caledonia.
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Brachyphyllum is a form genus of fossil coniferous plant foliage. Plants of the genus have been variously assigned to several different conifer groups including Araucariaceae and Cheirolepidiaceae. They are known from around the globe from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Cretaceous periods. B. sattlerae was named after the fictional palaebotanist Ellie Sattler from the Jurassic Park franchise.
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Corystosperms are a group of extinct seed plants belonging to the family Corystospermaceae assigned to the order Corystospermales or Umkomasiales. They were first described based on fossils collected by Hamshaw Thomas from the Burnera Waterfall locality near the Umkomaas River of South Africa. Corystosperms are typified by a group of plants that bore forked Dicroidium leaves, Umkomasia cupulate ovulate structures and Pteruchus pollen organs, which grew as trees that were widespread over Gondwana during the Middle and Late Triassic. Other fossil Mesozoic seed plants with similar leaf and/or reproductive structures have also sometimes been included within the "corystosperm" concept sensu lato, such as the "doyleoids" from the Early Cretaceous of North America and Asia. A potential corystosperm sensu lato, the leaf genus Komlopteris, is known from the Eocene of Tasmania, around 53-50 million years old, over 10 million years after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
This article records new taxa of plants that are scheduled to be described during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleobotany that are scheduled to occur in the year 2017.
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The paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands includes all plant and fungi fossils preserved in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Lagerstätten. The highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span an 1,000 km (620 mi) transect of British Columbia, Canada and Washington state, United States and are known for the diverse and detailed plant fossils which represent an upland temperate ecosystem immediately after the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, and before the increased cooling of the middle and late Eocene to Oligocene. The fossiliferous deposits of the region were noted as early as 1873, with small amounts of systematic work happening in the 1880-90s on British Columbian sites, and 1920-30s for Washington sites. A returned focus and more detailed descriptive work on the Okanagan Highlands sites revived in the 1970's. The noted richness of agricultural plant families in Republic and Princeton floras resulted in the term "Eocene orchards" being used for the paleofloras.
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Czekanowskiales, also known as Leptostrobales, are an extinct group of seed plants. Members of the family are distinguished by persistent leaves borne on deciduous short shoots, subtended by scale-like leaves. The leaves are highly dissected. They likely grew as trees and shrubs. The main ovulate structure of Czekanowskiales, Leptostrobus, consists of bivalved seed-bearing round capsule-like structures arranged along a long axis. The fossil record of Czekanowskiales is largely confined to the Northern Hemisphere, and they inhabited warm-temperate and temperate climates under humid conditions. The oldest possible records of the group are ovulate cones from the Late Permian of Italy, but the group is primarily known from the Late Triassic onwards, and were abundant during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Only a handful of species are known from the Late Cretaceous, confined to the northern Russian Far East, corresponding to the decline of other seed plant groups during the explosive radiation of flowering plants. The affinites of Czekanowskiales to other seed plants are obscure. A close relationship to the Ginkgoales have been proposed, based on similar preserved molecular signatures of fossil cuticles, with some authors placing Ginkgoales and Czekanowskiales into the broader grouping Ginkgophyta.
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