New palaeobotanical data from the Lower Devonian of Mezquita de Loscos (Teruel Province, Spain)

[en] 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. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis.

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Earth sciences & physical geography

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Cascales - Miñana, Borja ; AMAP (Botanique et Bioinformatique de l’Architecture des Plantes), UMR 5120 CNRS-CIRAD, F-34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Rial, Gonzalo; Sociedade Mineralóxica Galega, Escola Enxeñaría de Minas, Universidade de Vigo, Campus Lagoas, S/N, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain, Departamento de Geociencias Marinas y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Lagoas, S/N, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

Xue, Jinzhuang; Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China

Sender, Luis Miguel; Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain

Moreno-Domínguez, Rafael; Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain

Diez, Jose B.; Departamento de Geociencias Marinas y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Lagoas, S/N, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

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English

Title :

New palaeobotanical data from the Lower Devonian of Mezquita de Loscos (Teruel Province, Spain)

Publication date :

2015

Journal title :

Historical Biology

ISSN :

0891-2963

eISSN :

1029-2381

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Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom

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Issue :

3-4

Pages :

299–307

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