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Mummified Dicroidium (Umkomasiales) leaves and reproductive organs from the Upper Triassic of South Australia
Palaeobotany Research Group, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6723-239X
Palaeobotany Research Group, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
2022 (English)In: Palaeontographica Abteilung B, ISSN 2194-900X, Vol. 304, no 5-6, p. 149-225Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Leigh Creek Coal Measures incorporate unusually low-rank coals from the Upper Triassic of South Australia. Associated fluviolacustrine deposits contain well-preserved, partly mummified plant remains dominated by corystosperm seed ferns. The assemblage comprises seven species of Dicroidium, including D. odontopteroides, D. lineatum, D. dubium, D. zuberi, and Dicroidium spp. A, B and C, and associated reproductive organs, including various fragments of cupulate structures (Umkomasia sp. cf. U. quadripartita and Fanerotheca sp. cf. F. waldeckiformis) and pollen organs (Pteruchus africanus), all having excellent cuticle preservation. Based on a comprehensive analysis of more than 550 individual specimens, we (1) document diagnostic epidermal and cuticular features for foliage and reproductive organs, (2) provide an identification key for the Dicroidium species present, and (3) infer affiliations between reproductive organs and particular leaf species based on correspondence in epidermal anatomy and cuticle micromorphology and on mutual-occurrence data. Collectively, the Leigh Creek material contributes towards a more robust and realistic systematic classification of Umkomasiaceae, offers a rare chance for whole-plant reassembly of individual species, and refines reconstruction of the Dicroidium-dominated forest ecosystems in the middle to high latitudes of the Late Triassic greenhouse world.

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Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2022. Vol. 304, no 5-6, p. 149-225
Keywords [en]
Corystosperms, Umkomasia, Fanerotheca, Pteruchus, cuticle analysis, whole-plant reconstruction, Gondwana
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The changing Earth; Ecosystems and species history
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-5442DOI: 10.1127/palb/2022/0079OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-5442DiVA, id: diva2:1817618
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German Research Foundation (DFG), BO3131/1–1Swedish Research Council, 2018-04527Available from: 2023-12-01 Created: 2023-12-06 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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