“…The discovery of a new species of Schizolepidopsis at Tevshiin Govi adds to the diversity of the conifer assemblage at this locality. To date, six other conifer species have been described from Tevshiin Govi, as follows: the voltzialean Krassilovia mongolica Herrera, Leslie, Shi, Knopf, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, Crane et Herendeen; two species of Cupressaceae, Pentakonos diminutus Herrera, Shi, Knopf, Leslie, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, Crane et Herendeen and Stutzeliastrobus foliatus Herrera, Shi, Knopf, Leslie, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, Crane et Herendeen; and three pinaceous conifers, S. canicularis, Picea farjonii Herrera, Leslie, Shi, Knopf, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, Crane et Herendeen, and Pityostrobus stockeyae Herrera, Leslie, Shi, Knopf, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, Crane et Herendeen (Leslie et al 2013;Herrera et al 2015Herrera et al , 2016Herrera et al , 2017Herrera et al , 2020. In addition, two or more species of Schizolepidopsis cooccur at Tevshiin Govi in Mongolia (S. ediae and S. canicularis) and in the Huolinhe Formation of Inner Mongolia, China (S. ediae, S. longipetiolus, and S. moelleri), highlighting the diversity of the genus during the Late Cretaceous of East Asia (Domogatskaya and Herman 2019).…”