Mummified Dicroidium (Umkomasiales) leaves and reproductive organs from the Upper Triassic of South Australia
2022 (Engelska) Ingår i: Palaeontographica Abteilung B, ISSN 2194-900X, Vol. 304, nr 5-6, s. 149-225Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) 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, Band 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 forfoliage 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.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2022. Vol. 304, nr 5-6, s. 149-225
Nyckelord [en]
Corystosperms, Umkomasia, Fanerotheca, Pteruchus, cuticle analysis, whole-plant reconstruction, Gondwana
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Identifikatorer URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-5143 DOI: 10.1127/palb/2022/0079 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-5143 DiVA, id: diva2:1723392
Forskningsfinansiär Vetenskapsrådet, 2018-04527 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), BO3131/1–1
Anmärkning This work was supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG Emmy Noether grant BO3131/1–1 ‘Latitudinal Patterns in Plant Evolution’ to B.B.) and a grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR grant number 2018-04527) to S.M.
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