New palaeobotanical data from the Lower Devonian of Mezquita de Loscos (Teruel Province,Spain) |
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| Authors: | Borja Cascales-Miñana Gonzalo Rial Jinzhuang Xue Luis Miguel Sender Rafa Moreno-Domínguez José B. Diez |
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| Affiliation: | 1. AMAP (Botanique et Bioinformatique de l'Architecture des Plantes), UMR 5120 CNRS-CIRAD, F-34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, Franceborja.cascales@cirad.fr borja.cascales@gmail.com;3. Sociedade Mineralóxica Galega, Escola Enxe?aría de Minas, Universidade de Vigo, Campus Lagoas, S/N, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain;4. Departamento de Geociencias Marinas y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Lagoas, S/N, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain;5. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China;6. área de Paleontología, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain;7. Departamento de Geociencias Marinas y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Lagoas, S/N, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Recent fieldwork has uncovered three new localities from the Lower Devonian of Mezquita de Loscos (Teruel Province, Spain) with further plant mega-fossils and the first record of micro-fossils. Such plant remains have been interpreted as belonging to a basal euphyllophyte, Taeniocrada-like stems, Hostinella genus and paired sporangia. Fourteen spore taxa were recovered, including Ambitisporites, Aneurospora, Brochotriletes, Chelinospora, Emphanisporites, Gneudnaspora and Retusotriletres, among others. New evidence confirms a Lochkovian age for this outcrop and suggests that the plant diversity was more complex than originally documented. |
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| Keywords: | early tracheophytes Iberian Peninsula Lochkovian plant fossils spore diversity |
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