Preliminary note on fossil flowers and inflorescences from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Westerwald, W-Germany)

Uhl, Dieter

doi:10.1007/s12549-014-0172-x

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“…Plant remains in such lakes also experience less hydro-mechanical stress due to water transport and so can preserve delicate plant structure such as flowers (e.g. Uhl 2015).…”

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Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?

Cleal

Pardoe

Berry

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…Plant remains in such lakes also experience less hydro-mechanical stress due to water transport and so can preserve delicate plant structure such as flowers (e.g. Uhl 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?

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Pardoe

Berry

et al. 2021

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…Frankenhäuser and Wilde 1993;Wilde andFrankenhäuser 1993, 1998), as well as the late Oligocene maar lakes of Enspel (e.g. Köhler and Uhl 2014;Uhl 2015;Uhl and Poschmann 2018), Rott (e.g. Mosbrugger 1996;Winterscheid et al 2018), and Kleinsaubernitz (e.g.…”

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Menatanthus mosbruggeri gen. nov. et sp. nov. – A flower with in situ pollen tetrads from the Paleocene maar lake of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France)

Uhl

Paudayal

Hervet³

et al. 2020

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The Paleocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Menat in France is well known for its wealth of outstandingly well preserved fossil insects and plants. Despite being known for more than a century, the palaeoflora, which is regarded as typical for the late Thanetian by some authors, has largely been neglected since the 1940s. New excavations and surveys yielded exceptionally well-preserved plant material, including a minute, heptamerous flower bearing in situ pollen tetrads, comparable to tetrads of the modern ericacean genus Kalmia L, in its anthers. The only known modern ericacean genus which is characterised by heptamerous flowers is Bejaria Mutis ex L., a basal relative of the tribe Phyllodoceae within Ericaceae, which also includes the genus Kalmia in a relatively basal position. However, heptamerous flowers also occur very rarely (mostly interpreted as teratologies) in a number of other modern Ericaceae, but also in various other modern angiosperm families. Due to the unique combination of a heptamerous flower with Kalmia-type pollen tetrads within the anthers, the new taxon Menatanthus mosbruggeri gen. nov. et sp. nov. is erected. The lack of morphological data from the flower itself and the fact that comparable pollen tetrads can be produced by a number of modern families, however, prevent an assignment of the new taxon to any known angiosperm family.

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“…In particular the diverse macro-fl ora from the Late Oligocene maar or crater lake of Enspel has been studied in some detail (e.g. Uhl and Herrmann 2010, Köhler and Uhl 2014, Uhl 2014, 2015, Uhl and Poschmann 2018. Another fl ora that came under the focus of current research originates from the former Lignite mine "Späth" near Norken (Müller 1997, Uhl et al 2011, Krüger et al 2017, located only a few kilometres north of Enspel.…”

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Epidermal Anatomy of Glyptostrobus Europaeus (Brongn.) Unger from The Late Oligocene of The Westerwald (Rhinelandpalatinate, W-Germany)

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Krüger²,

Wuttke³

2018

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Abstract Details of the epidermal anatomy of Glyptostrobus europaeus (BRONGN.) UNGER from the Late Oligocene locality Norken in the Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate, W-Germany) are documented and described by means of scanning electron microscopy of in situ cuticles. The taxon had a wide distribution over the entire Northern Hemisphere during the Oligocene and it is considered to represent the most common conifer during the Cenozoic of Europe, but cuticles from this taxon are rarely figured in the literature. The cuticles from Norken exhibit cellular patterns and details (e.g. of stomatal complexes) typical for taxodioid Cupressaceae. Anatomical observations are in close agreement with results for this taxon from other Central European localities. The in situ cuticles had already fragmented into very small pieces, and this explains why it was so far impossible to retrieve cuticles from this locality by means of standard cuticular analytic techniques.

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Preliminary note on fossil flowers and inflorescences from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Westerwald, W-Germany)

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?

Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?

Menatanthus mosbruggeri gen. nov. et sp. nov. – A flower with in situ pollen tetrads from the Paleocene maar lake of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France)

Epidermal Anatomy of Glyptostrobus Europaeus (Brongn.) Unger from The Late Oligocene of The Westerwald (Rhinelandpalatinate, W-Germany)

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