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Journal Article
Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers
2020
Overview
Previously unrecognized anatomical features of the cone scales of the enigmatic Early Cretaceous conifer Krassilovia mongolica include the presence of transversely oriented paracytic stomata, which is unusual for all other extinct and extant conifers. Identical stomata are present on co-occurring broad, linear, multiveined leaves assigned to Podozamites harrisii, providing evidence that K. mongolica and P. harrisii are the seed cones and leaves of the same extinct plant. Phylogenetic analyses of the relationships of the reconstructed Krassilovia plant place it in an informal clade that we name the Krassilovia Clade, which also includes Swedenborgia cryptomerioides-Podozamites schenkii, and Cycadocarpidium erdmanni-Podozamites schenkii. All three of these plants have linear leaves that are relatively broad compared to most living conifers, and that are also multiveined with transversely oriented paracytic stomata. We propose that these may be general features of the Krassilovia Clade. Paracytic stomata, and other features of this new group, recall features of extant and fossil Gnetales, raising questions about the phylogenetic homogeneity of the conifer clade similar to those raised by phylogenetic analyses of molecular data.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Computer and Information Sciences
/ Cones
/ Conifers
/ Ecosystems and species history
/ Endangered & extinct species
/ Funding
/ Geology
/ Leaves
/ Mesozoic
/ Mongolia
/ Museums
/ Plant Leaves - anatomy & histology
/ Plants
/ Seeds
/ Stomata
/ Studies
/ Taxonomy
