Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4749596 | Palaeoworld | 2016 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation, distributed in the Daohugou area, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, is famous for yielding abundant, well-preserved fossil vertebrates and invertebrates. However, only a few fossil plants have been reported to date. In this paper, one new species of Czekanowskiales, Phoenicopsis (Windwardia) daohugouensis n. sp. is described based upon leaf morphology and epidermal characters. The new species represents the first record of Czekanowskiales from the Daohugou Biota. The discovery of the new species reveals the significance of the Daohugou flora as one of the deciduous forests in the temperate-warm temperate zone of Eurasia during the Middle Jurassic.
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Authors
Wei Huang, Chun-Lin Sun, Hong-Shan Wang, Yu-Ling Na, Yun-Feng Li, Tao Li,