Jubula polessica D.A.Mamontov, J.J.Atwood et Perkovsky in Mamontov, Atwood, Ignatov, Vasilenko, Legalov & Perkovsky

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003469

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3469

Authors: D. A. Mamontov, J. J. Atwood & E. E. Perkovsky

Rank: species

Reference for this name: Mamontov, D. A., Atwood, J. J., Ignatov, M. S., Vasilenko, D. V., Legalov, A. & Perkovsky, E. E. (2024): Hepaticsfrom Rovno amber (Ukraine). 12. Jubula polessicasp. nov. – Ecologica Montenegrina 73: 1–10.

Page of description: 3

Illustrations or figures: fig. 1

Types

Original diagnosis/description

An incubously foliated liverwort, differs from all Frullaniaspecies by the insertion of its underleaves and the number of its floral series of bracts, from all Jubulaspecies in the much smaller plant size, and from the morphologically similar Pseudofrullania hamatosetacea(Grolle) Heinrichs, Feldberg, M.A.M.Renner & Schäf.-Verw. and Neohattoriaherzogii(S.Hatt.) Kamim. by the comparatively larger underleaves, absenceof long cilia and short dense teeth on the leaf lobe apices.

Etymology

The species is named after its locus classicus situated in Ukrainian Polissya, part of the Polesian Lowland.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Eocene
Late Eocene.

Locality

Ukraine
Quarry 5 km south of Belokorovychi Village, Korosten District, Zhitomir Region.