Asplenium sanshuiense sp. nov.: the Lowest Latitude Fossil Record of the Genus

Asplenium sanshuiense sp. nov.: the Lowest Latitude Fossil Record of the Genus
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41210001), the joint Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant Nos. 41611130044, 16-55-53007), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant no. 16lgjc28), State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) (No.163109), and the Scientific Research Fund, Hongda Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University. We sincerely thank Xianqiu Zhang for collecting the fossils. We also offer sincere gratitude to Qingqing Xu, Meng Han for their constructive suggestions on this study, and Pavel Alexeev, researcher of Komarov Botanical Institute for providing references. We are grateful to Prof. Robert A. Spicer (The Open University, UK) for English improvements.

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    Extant Asplenium is one of the most widespread fern groups and occurs in the temperate and tropical regions. However, the fossil records of this genus are poorly documented, especially in the low latitudes. Here, a new species, Asplenium sanshuiense sp. nov. is described from the early Eocene of Sanshui Basin, Guangdong Province, South China. This is the lowest modern latitude fossil record of Asplenium and the first fossil assignment of A. section Darea (Jussieu) Bak., as well as the first fossil record of Asplenium reported from South China. This new species shows that Asplenium had already spread into South China by the early Eocene and the section Darea (Jussieu) Bak. was identifiable within the genus Asplenium during that time. This new species, combined with previous fossil spore-pollen records indicates a warm and humid climate in the Sanshui Basin of the early Eocene.

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XU Kewang, LIAO Wenbo, JIN Jianhua, LIU Xiaoyan.2017. Asplenium sanshuiense sp. nov.: the Lowest Latitude Fossil Record of the Genus[J]. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA(English edition),91(4):1179~1189

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  • 收稿日期:2017-02-10
  • 最后修改日期:2017-04-10
  • 在线发布日期: 2017-08-18
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