Dicranodontium minutum Hedenäs, Bomfleur et E.M.Friis in Bomfleur, Hedenäs, Friis, Crane, Pedersen, Mendes & Kvaček

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003149

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

Rank: species

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: 112

Illustrations or figures: text-fig. 7 a–d

Types

Holotype S266382, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: Text-fig. 7a, c

Note: Holotype from Catefica sample 49.

Paratype: S266384 (Catefica sample 49) housed in Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.

A member of the genus Dicranodontium, but with leaves much smaller than those of any extant species.

The epithet refers to the small size.

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Almargem Formation, Early Cretaceous (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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