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This paleobotany list records new fossil plant taxa that were to be described during the year 2024, as well as notes other significant paleobotany discoveries and events which occurred during 2024.
Conifers
Pinaceae
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Paranothotsuga[1] |
Gen. et comb. nov |
In press |
Kowalski in Kowalski et al. |
Oligocene to Pliocene |
Cottbus Formation |
The type species is "Pseudotsuga" jechorekiae Czaja (2000). |
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Other conifers
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Cratoxylon[2] |
Gen. et sp. nov |
Conceição et al. |
Early Cretaceous |
A member of Pinidae of uncertain affinities. The type species is C. placidoi. The name is preoccupied by Cratoxylon Blume. |
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Flowering plants
Monocots
Poales
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sparganium tuberculatum[1] |
Sp. nov |
In press |
Kowalski in Kowalski et al. |
Miocene |
Spremberg Formation |
A species of Sparganium. |
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Superasterids
Ericales
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Pterosinojackia[1] |
Gen. et sp. nov |
In press |
Kowalski in Kowalski et al. |
Oligocene to Miocene |
A member of the family Styracaceae. The type species is P. lusatica. |
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Superrosids
Fagales
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Morella stoppii[1] |
Comb. nov |
In press |
(Kirchheimer) |
Miocene |
A member of the family Myricaceae; moved from Myrica stoppii Kirchheimer (1942). |
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Other angiosperms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Magnolia germanica[1] |
Comb. nov |
In press |
(Mai) |
Oligocene to Miocene |
A species of Magnolia; moved from Manglietia germanica Mai (1971). |
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Pabiania enochii[3] |
Sp. nov |
Rubalcava-Knoth & Cevallos-Ferriz |
Late Cretaceous |
A member of Laurales. |
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- The first fossil record of a flower of a member of the genus Cryptocarya is reported from the Miocene Zhangpu amber (China) by Beurel et al. (2024).[4]
Other plants
Other plant research
- Redescription and a study on the affinities of Stauroxylon beckii is published by Durieux et al. (2024).[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Kowalski, R.; Tietz, O.; Worobiec, E.; Worobiec, G. (2024). "New floras from the Tetta Clay Pit, Upper Lusatia, late Oligocene–Early Miocene, Germany" (PDF). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. 94. doi:10.14241/asgp.2024.01.
- ↑ Conceição, D. M.; Gobo, W. V.; Batista, M. E. P.; Oliveira, N. C.; Mastroberti, A. A.; Iannuzzi, R.; Bamford, M. K.; Kunzmann, L. (2024). "Expanding the diversity of conifer xyloflora from Early Cretaceous Crato Fossil Lagerstätte, Brazil". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 105061. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105061.
- ↑ Rubalcava-Knoth, M. A.; Cevallos-Ferriz, S. R. S. (2024). "Trilobated Lauraceous leaves from the Upper Cretaceous Olmos Formation, Coahuila, Northern Mexico". Cretaceous Research. 105820. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105820.
- ↑ Beurel, S.; Bachelier, J. B.; Munzinger, J.; Shao, F.; Hammel, J. U.; Shi, G.; Sadowski, E.-M. (2024). "First flower inclusion and fossil evidence of Cryptocarya (Laurales, Lauraceae) from Miocene amber of Zhangpu (China)". Fossil Record. 27 (1): 1–11. doi:10.3897/fr.27.109621.
- ↑ Durieux, T.; Decombeix, A.-L.; Harper, C.; Galtier, J. (2024). "Re-investigation of Stauroxylon beckii, a possible aneurophytalean progymnosperm from the Mississippian of France". International Journal of Plant Sciences. doi:10.1086/729412.