scholarly journals Dioscorea manchesteri Kvaček, sp. nov., a new fossil species from the early Miocene flora of North Bohemia (Czech Republic)

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-371
Author(s):  
Zlatko Kvaček
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
East Asia ◽  
First Record ◽  
Kuril Islands ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Subtropical Climate ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Warm Temperate

Abstract Using the morphology of fin-winged fruits and accompanying foliage, the author characterizes a new fossil species, Dioscorea manchesteri Kvaček, sp. nov. (Dioscoreaceae), recovered from early Miocene deposits of the Most Basin (North Bohemia, Czech Republic). Dioscorea manchesteri matches the extant Dioscorea polystachya Turcz. in its fruit and foliage morphology. This perennial climbing vine native to China now grows throughout East Asia (Japan, Korea, Kuril Islands, Vietnam) in warm temperate to subtropical climate. The record of Dioscorea manchesteri is the first record of this genus in the European Neogene.

The early Miocene paleolake Manuherikia: vegetation heterogeneity and warm-temperate to subtropical climate in southern New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammo Reichgelt ◽  
Elizabeth M. Kennedy ◽  
John G. Conran ◽  
Dallas C. Mildenhall ◽  
Daphne E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Subtropical Climate ◽  
Vegetation Heterogeneity ◽  
Warm Temperate

scholarly journals First record of Diplocynodon ratelii Pomel, 1847 from the early Miocene site of Tušimice (Most Basin, Northwest Bohemia, Czech Republic)

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 877-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Àngel H. Luján ◽  
Milan Chroust ◽  
Andrej Čerňanský ◽  
Josep Fortuny ◽  
Martin Mazuch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
First Record ◽  
Early Miocene

Two new species of Bowenia Hook, ex Hook, f. from the Eocene of eastern Australia

1978 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 837 ◽  
Author(s):  
RS Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Subtropical Climate ◽  
Morphological Similarity ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
First Report ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Warm Temperate

Two new species of Bowenia Hook. ex Hook, f. (B. papillosa Hill and B. eocenica Hill) represent the first report of this genus in the fossil record. Cuticular and architectural differences support their new specific status; however, the overall morphological similarity of the two fossil species to extant Bowenia suggests that evolution in this genus is slow. The fossil localities illustrate that in the Eocene Bowenia occurred further south than it does at present. Physiognomic analyses of the fossil dicotyle-donous leaves at the two localities indicate a warm-temperate to subtropical climate. It is therefore likely that the fossil species lived in environments similar to that of extant B. spectabilis Hook. ex Hook, f.

scholarly journals The First Glyptostroboxylon and Taxodioxylon Descriptions from the Late Miocene of Turkey and Palaeoclimatological Evaluation

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ünal Akkemik ◽  
Nevriye Neslihan Acarca Bayam
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Forest Composition ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Volcanic Province ◽  
History Of ◽  
Warm Temperate Forest ◽  
Central Turkey ◽  
Warm Temperate

Taxodioxylon Hartig, (emended by Gothan 1905) was widely described from the late Oligocene of the European part of Turkey (Thrace) and the early Miocene of greater Turkey, Anatolia.,C,. was also described from the early Miocene of central Anatolia. The purpose of this paper is to present a more detailed extended history of these two genera up to the late Miocene (Tortonian) with new descriptions from the Galatean Volcanic Province in central Turkey. The wood identification showed the presence of two fossil species;,D,et B,and,(G,.) G,. In conclusion, the swamp and lowland warm-temperate forest composition including,and,in the Galatean Volcanic Province, continued from the early Miocene (Burdigalian) to the late Miocene (Tortonian).

scholarly journals A new species of Plesiosorex (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the Early Miocene of Japan: first record of the genus from East Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 292-299
Author(s):  
Mitsuharu Oshima ◽  
Yukimitsu Tomida ◽  
Takamichi Orihara
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
First Record ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Central Japan ◽  
European Species ◽  
A New Species

Abstract A nearly complete dentary with preserved i2, p3 and m1 of a relatively large soricomorph from the Dota locality, Kani Basin, Early Miocene (ca. 18.5 Ma), Nakamura Formation of the Mizunami Group in central Japan, is described as a new species of Plesiosorex. It represents the first record of the genus in East Asia. Plesiosorex fejfari sp. nov. has a slender dentary, posteriorly elongated angular and condyloid processes, p3 with two roots, and m1 without hypoconulid or cingulid. Cladistic analysis of Butselia gracilis and seven species of Plesiosorex shows that Butselia is basally positioned with respect to Plesiosorex, and it seems likely that Plesiosorex originated in Europe at the beginning of the Miocene and expanded its distribution to East Asia and North America during the Early Miocene. Two Middle Miocene North American species are more closely related to each other than to European species of the same age.

scholarly journals New fossil records of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae, Cycadales) from the European Oligocene and lower Miocene

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zlatko Kvaček
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Temperature Regime ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Lower Miocene ◽  
Lower Oligocene ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Generic Affinity ◽  
Fossil Records ◽  
Warm Temperate

Abstract New compression leaf material of Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) has been recognised in the European Cenozoic. A leaflet of Ceratozamia floersheimensis (Engelhardt) Kvaček was recovered among unidentified material from the Oligocene of Trbovlje, former Trifail, Slovenia, housed in old collections of the Austrian Geological Survey, Vienna. It is similar in morphology and epidermal anatomy to other specimens previously studied from the lower Oligocene of Flörsheim, Germany and Budapest, Hungary. A fragmentary leaflet assigned to C. hofmannii Ettingsh. was recovered in the uppermost part of the Most Formation (Most Basin in North Bohemia, Czech Republic) and dated by magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy to CHRON C5Cn.3n, that is, the latest early Miocene. It yielded excellently preserved epidermal structures, permitting confirmation of the generic affinity and a more precise comparison with this lower Miocene species previously known from Austria (Münzenberg, Leoben Basin) and re-investigated earlier. Both the Oligocene and Miocene populations of Ceratozamia are based on isolated disarticulated leaflets matching some living representatives in the size and slender form of the leaflets. Such ceratozamias thrive today in extratropical areas near the present limits of distribution of the genus along the Sierra Madre Orientale in north-eastern Mexico, in particular C. microstrobila Vovides & J.D. Rees and others of the C. latifolia complex, as well as C. hildae G.P. Landry & M.C. Wilson (“bamboo cycad”). The occurrence of Ceratozamia suggests subtropical to warm-temperate, almost frostless climate and a high amount of precipitation. The accompanied fossil vegetation of both species corresponds well with the temperature regime. While the Oligocene species in Hungary probably thrived under sub-humid conditions, the remaining occurrences of fossil Ceratozamia were connected with humid evergreen to mixed-mesophytic forests.

New material of Ophisaurus, Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany and systematic revision and palaeobiogeography of the Cenozoic Anguinae

2016 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOZEF KLEMBARA ◽  
MICHAEL RUMMEL
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
First Record ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Bering Strait ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
New Material

AbstractFour species of Ophisaurus, O. fejfari, O. spinari, O. robustus and O. holeci, are recognized on the basis of parietals from the Early Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany. The fifth species, O. acuminatus, is described from the Late Miocene of Germany, but its parietal is not preserved. This paper describes new O. fejfari, O. spinari, O. robustus and O. holeci specimens from the Early and Middle Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany. The O. fejfari and O. holeci parietals from Germany are the first records of these species outside the Czech Republic. This paper provides a significant contribution to the understanding of both interspecific and intraspecific Ophisaurus variability in the Cenozoic of Europe. A well-preserved parietal of Anguis rarus sp. nov. is described from the Early Miocene of Germany. This is the first record of the parietal of Anguis in the Cenozoic. A new parietal from the Middle Miocene of Germany is described as Pseudopus sp. It differs from the contemporaneous P. laurillardi only in the absence of the large and distinctly laterally projecting anterolateral processes of the parietal. In the Miocene, Ophisaurus and Pseudopus exhibit a higher diversity than that of the preceding geological periods of the Cenozoic. Besides, Ophisaurus emigrates from Europe to (1) Asia and via the Bering Strait to North America, and (2) North Africa during the Oligocene and Miocene. By contrast, Anguis and Pseudopus are limited to Eurasia. The palaeobiogeography of members of Anguinae is discussed.

First record of Geoglossum uliginosum (Ascomycota, Geoglossales) in the Czech Republic.

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Kučera ◽  
Jan Gaisler
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Czech Republic
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