Matoniaceous ferns from the Lower Jurassic strata of the Holy Cross Mountains (SE Poland). Revision of historical specimens and description of some new materials

Ferns from the family Matoniaceae are characteristic but not very numerous elements of Early Jurassic floras of the Holy Cross Mountains. Based on historical specimens from the Geological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, only partly published by Raciborski and Makarewiczówna, and a new c...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Acta Palaeobotanica
Main Author: Grzegorz Pacyna
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences 2021
Subjects:
matonia
phlebopteris
hettangian
gromadzice
Paleontology
QE701-760
Botany
QK1-989
Greenland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.35535/acpa-2021-0006
https://doaj.org/article/0c8bf8a9847e462f9e81501e49dc47f2
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Summary:Ferns from the family Matoniaceae are characteristic but not very numerous elements of Early Jurassic floras of the Holy Cross Mountains. Based on historical specimens from the Geological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, only partly published by Raciborski and Makarewiczówna, and a new collection gathered recently from the Gromadzice outcrop, two taxa are here recognised: Matonia braunii and Phlebopteris angustiloba, of which only P. angustiloba is rather frequent. Both species are represented by sterile and fertile specimens well comparable with historical and recently published material of these species from Greenland, Germany and Sweden. Specimens referred by Raciborski to Laccopteris elegans (illegitimate name) do not belong to Matoniaceae.

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