Lejeunea aristovii D.A.Mamontov, Schäf.-Verw., K.Feldberg et Perkovsky in Mamontov, Schäfer-Verwimp, Feldberg, Vasilenko, Legalov & Perkovsky

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003470

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3470

Authors: D. A. Mamontov, A. Schäfer-Verwimp, K. Feldberg & E. E. Perkovsky

Rank: species

Reference for this name: Mamontov, D. A., Schäfer-Verwimp, A., Feldberg, K., Vasilenko, D. V., Legalov, A. & Perkovsky, E. E. (2024): Hepatics from Rovno amber (Ukraine). 14. Lejeunea aristoviisp. nov. and Odontoschisma dimorpha from Belokorovychi. – Ecologica Montenegrina 80: 230–243.

Page of description: 232

Illustrations or figures: figs 1, 2

Types

Original diagnosis/description

The Lejeuneagametophyte is characterized by elliptic-ovate, apiculate to obtuse or narrowly rounded leaf lobes, reduced to absent leaf-lobules, and bilobed underleaves, and differs from the PaleogeneCheilolejeunea latilobaby the less falcate and longly inserted leaf lobes, reduced or absent leaf lobules, and underleaves that are longer than wide and widest in their upper third.

Etymology

The species is named in honor of Dr. Daniil Sergeevich Aristov, an eminent paleoentomologist.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Eocene
Late Eocene.

Locality

Ukraine
Volhynian Uplift.