Polytrichastrum incurvum Hedenäs, Bomfleur et E.M.Friis in Bomfleur, Hedenäs, Friis, Crane, Pedersen, Mendes & Kvaček

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003145

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3145

Authors: L. Hedenäs, B. Bomfleur & E. M. Friis

Rank: species

Reference: Bomfleur, B., Hedenäs, L., Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R., Pedersen, K. R., Mendes, M. M. & Kvaček, J. (2023): Fossil Mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal – a window into the Mesozoic history of bryophytes. – Fossil Imprint 79(2): 103–125.

Page of description: 105

Illustrations or figures: text-figs 3a–g, 4a–d

Types

Holotype S174251, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: text-fig. 3a–g

Note: Holotype from Catefica sample 49.

Paratypes: S266391, S266392 (Catefica sample 49), housed in Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.

Original diagnosis/description

A species of Polytrichastrum G.L.Sm. with distinctly incurved margins of the leaf limb and upper cells of the lamellae that are thin-walled or only slightly thickened distally.

Etymology

The specific epithet refers to the incurved leaf margins.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Almargem Formation, Early Cretaceous (Aptian–early Albian)

Locality

Portugal
Catefica (39° 03ʹ 30ʺ N, 09°14ʹ 30ʺ W), between the villages of Catefica and Mugideira, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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