Fossil mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal – a window into the Mesozoic history of Bryophytes Benjamin Bomfleur, Lars Hedenäs, Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, Mário Miguel Mendes, Jiří Kvaček A diverse assemblage of mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal, is described based on fragments of charcoalified and lignitized gametophytes and a single spore capsule. Nine different gametophyte morphologies are recognized and assigned to Sphagnopsida, Polytrichopsida…
The early Eocene flora of Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada and its phytogeographic significance Kathleen B. Pigg, Steven R. Manchester, Melanie L. Devore About forty species, including a bryophyte, ferns, conifers, Ginkgo, and over 35 angiosperms, are recognized based on compression-impression remains from the early Eocene of Horsefly, British Colombia, Canada. This flora is in the north central part of a chain of late early Eocene fossil assemblages…
New genus and species of the family Aeduellidae (Actinopterygii) from the Lower Goldlauter Formation (Asselian, Lower Permian) of the Thuringian Forest (Germany) Stanislav Štamberg, Ralf Werneburg A new aeduellid actinopterygian Amelangia ornata gen. et sp. nov. is described from the Lower Goldlauter Formation of the Thuringian Forest (Lower Permian, Germany). Distinguishing characters of the newly described taxon are a large dermosphenotic, an unusually large number of suborbital bones, a…
A new fossil Sucinorhagonycha (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from Baltic amber with visible female gonostili Fabrizio Fanti Sucinorhagonycha carsteni sp. nov. from the Baltic amber deposits of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia, is described and diagnosed in this paper. It is the first confirmed species of Cantharidae Cantharinae with visible female gonostyli. Until now, gonostyli were visible only in the fossil…
