Chlorosphagnum cateficense Hedenäs, Bomfleur et E.M.Friis in Bomfleur, Hedenäs, Friis, Crane, Pedersen, Mendes & Kvaček

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003144

Authors: L. Hedenäs, B. Bomfleur & E. M. Friis

Rank: species

Genus: Chlorosphagnum Hedenäs, Bomfleur et E.M.Friis in Bomfleur, Hedenäs, Friis, Crane, Pedersen, Mendes & Kvaček

Reference: Bomfleur, B., Hedenäs, L., Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R., Pedersen, K. R., Mendes, M. M. & Kvaček, J. (2023): Fossil Mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal – a window into the Mesozoic history of bryophytes. – Fossil Imprint 79(2): 103–125.

Page of description: 105

Illustrations or figures: text-figs 1a–g, 2a–d

Name is type for

Chlorosphagnum Hedenäs, Bomfleur et E.M.Friis in Bomfleur, Hedenäs, Friis, Crane, Pedersen, Mendes & Kvaček 2023

Holotype S156535, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: text-fig. 1a, f

Note: Holotype from Catefica sample 49.

Paratypes: S107796, S156534, S266377, S266380, S266381 housed in Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hyaline cells distinctly fibrillose.

Referring to the locality, Catefica, where the fossils were collected.

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Almargem Formation, Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian)

Portugal
Catefica (39° 03ʹ 30ʺ N, 09°14ʹ 30ʺ W), between the villages of Catefica and Mugideira, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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