Structurally preserved Nilssoniopteris from the Arida Formation (Barremian, Lower Cretaceous) of southwest Japan

Yamada, Toshihiro; Legrand, Julien; Nishida, Harufumi

doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.04.006

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“…Sueria laxinervis also has vascular bundles arranged in the inverted-omega shape, providing another line of evidence that the genus Sueria belongs in Cycadales. This arrangement is markedly different from that in the midrib of the bennettitalean species Nilssoniopteris oishii Yamada et al (2009: 411), which has a taeniopterid-type leaf and vascular bundles arranged in a circle (Yamada et al 2009), as in the other bennettitalean species (Dower et al 2004, Yamada 2009.…”

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Sueria laxinervis, a new fossil species of Cycadales from the Upper Cretaceous Quiriquina Formation in Cocholgüe, Bíobío Region, Chile

Yamada

Terada

et al. 2019

Phytotaxa

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A new fossil cycad species, Sueria laxinervis, is described from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Quiriquina Formation in Cocholgüe, Bíobío Region, Chile. The generic assignment is supported by the taeniopterid-type leaf with haplocheilic stomata and sinuate anticlinal walls of leaf epidermal cells, while S. laxinervis clearly differs from the other two described Sueria species in its sparse veins and large epidermal cells. The vascular bundles of the midrib are arranged in an inverted-omega shape, supporting the placement of Sueria in Cycadales.

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Sueria laxinervis, a new fossil species of Cycadales from the Upper Cretaceous Quiriquina Formation in Cocholgüe, Bíobío Region, Chile

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“…However, Nilssoniopteris amurensis is very distinct in its amphistomatic leaves which lack abaxial trichomes. The two anatomically preserved Early Cretaceous Nilssoniopteris leaves are difficult to compare with the two new Mongolian taxa (Yamada et al 2009, Ray et al 2014. However, N. oishii from the Barremian Arida Formation of Japan can be distinguished from N. tomentosa and N. shiveeovoensis on the basis of its segmented lamina and predominantly unbranched lateral veins (Yamada et al 2009).…”

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“…The two anatomically preserved Early Cretaceous Nilssoniopteris leaves are difficult to compare with the two new Mongolian taxa (Yamada et al 2009, Ray et al 2014. However, N. oishii from the Barremian Arida Formation of Japan can be distinguished from N. tomentosa and N. shiveeovoensis on the basis of its segmented lamina and predominantly unbranched lateral veins (Yamada et al 2009). Nilssoniopteris corrugata from the Valanginian Apple Bay flora, British Columbia, Canada, differs from both new leaf taxa from Mongolia by its apparent lack of abaxial trichomes and the rarely dichotomous lateral veins.…”

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Exceptionally well-preserved Early Cretaceous leaves of Nilssoniopteris from central Mongolia

Herrera

Shi

Tsolmon

et al. 2018

Acta Palaeobotanica

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Two new Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) species of fossil bennettitalean leaves are described from central Mongolia and assigned to the genus Nilssoniopteris. Nilssoniopteris tomentosa F.Herrera, G.Shi, Tsolmon, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, P.R.Crane, et Herend. sp. nov., isolated from bulk sediment samples collected for mesofossils in the Tevshiingovi Formation at the Tevshiin Govi opencast coal mine, is distinctive in having a dense, well-developed indumentum composed of branched, flattened multicellular trichomes on the abaxial leaf surface. This species provides the first direct evidence of complex multicellular trichomes in Bennettitales and adds to the evidence of leaf anatomical features in the group that were probably advantageous in increasing water use efficiency and/or perhaps had other functions such as deterring insect herbivory. Comparison with other well-preserved leaves of Bennettitales, including Nilssoniopteris shiveeovoensis F.Herrera, G.Shi, Tsolmon, Ichinnorov, Takahashi, P.R.Crane, et Herend. sp. nov., collected as hand specimens from the Khukhteeg Formation at the Shivee Ovoo locality, suggests that the trichome bases seen commonly on the abaxial cuticle of bennettitalean leaves bore trichomes with very low fossilization potential. In some cases these trichomes may have been shed as the leaves matured, but in other cases they probably decayed during diagenesis or were destroyed during the standard processes by which fossil leaf cuticles are prepared.

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“…It occurs mainly in Eurasia, including Sweden, the United Kingdom (Nathorst 1909;Harris 1969;Watson and Sincock 1992), Austria (Pott et al , 2008(Pott et al , 2010, the former Soviet Union (Samylina 1963(Samylina , 1964Krassilov 1967;Doludenko and Svanidze 1969), Iran and Afghanistan (Sadovnikov 1989;Schweitzer and Kirchner 2003), China (Zhang et al 1980;Zheng and Zhang 1982;Wang 1984;Li et al 1986;Chen et al 1988;Sun and Shen 1988;Sun and Yang 1988;Wu 1988;Zhou 1989;Zheng et al 1990;Wu 1993;Deng 1995;Barale et al 1998), Japan (Yamada et al 2009), and Greenland (Harris 1932;Boyd 2000). There are no reports of Nilssoniopteris from North America or the Southern Hemisphere (Anderson and Anderson Ash 1989;Gnaedinger and Herbst 2004;Cantrill and Hunter 2005).…”

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Nilssoniopteris binggouensissp. nov. (Bennettitales) from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeast China

Sun

Dilcher

et al. 2014

International Journal of Plant Sciences

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to International Journal of Plant Sciences. Premise of research. A new species, Nilssoniopteris binggouensis (Bennettitales), is recognized from the Lower Cretaceous Binggou Formation from western Liaoning Province, northeast China. This is the first time that fossil plants are reported from the Early Cretaceous Binggou Formation from Liaoning Province. The new species is one of the youngest-known Bennettitales from China.Methodology. Fossil specimens were examined using SEM and LM and were compared with other published taxa.Pivotal results. Based on leaf morphology and epidermal characters, we describe a new species, N. binggouensis. The leaf is petiolate with entire margin and fine, parallel lateral veins. The leaf lamina is hypostomatic. The anticlinal walls of epidermal cells are strongly and tightly folded. The stomatal apparatus is brachyparacytic (psyndetocheilic).Conclusions. The occurrence of the new species in the late Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province significantly extends the stratigraphic and geographic distribution of the genus Nilssoniopteris in the Northern Hemisphere. It represents one of the easternmost occurrences of this predominantly Eurasian genus. This report increases our knowledge of this Early Cretaceous fossil site and improves our understanding of the diversity of the Bennettitales.

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Structurally preserved Nilssoniopteris from the Arida Formation (Barremian, Lower Cretaceous) of southwest Japan

Cited by 13 publications

References 39 publications

Sueria laxinervis, a new fossil species of Cycadales from the Upper Cretaceous Quiriquina Formation in Cocholgüe, Bíobío Region, Chile

Sueria laxinervis, a new fossil species of Cycadales from the Upper Cretaceous Quiriquina Formation in Cocholgüe, Bíobío Region, Chile

Exceptionally well-preserved Early Cretaceous leaves of Nilssoniopteris from central Mongolia

Nilssoniopteris binggouensissp. nov. (Bennettitales) from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeast China

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