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This work was carried out in the framework of the topic of the state task of the Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Project No. 121042700218-2); this work involved the Centre of Geodynamics and Geochronology equipment at the Institute of the Earth's Crust (Grant No. 075-15-2021-682). We are grateful to Marina M. Maslennikova for help with working on an FEI Company Quanta 200 scanning electron microscope at the Shared Research Facilities for Physical and Chemical Ultramicroanalysis (Limnological Institute SB RAS, Irkutsk), and Dr. Stepan V. Ivantsov (Tomsk State University, Russia) for active participation in field research. We are very grateful to Dr. Mike Pole (Queensland Herbarium, Australia) and the second anonymous reviewer for valuable comments and discussion of the study results.

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    Two new species of Eretmophyllum Thomas are described from the lower (Toarcian) and upper (Aalenian) Prisayan Formation of the Irkutsk Basin, Eastern Siberia, Russia based on distinct morphological and cuticular features of the leaves that distinguish them from other species of the genus. Eretmophyllum polypapillosum sp. nov. is characterized by the presence of 2–3 papillae on the lower and upper epidermis of ordinary cells. Taphonomically, the leaf burials of E. polypapillosum sp. nov. indicate that it preferred mesophilic forests developed on river terraces and/or low watersheds. Eretmophyllum yershowskiensis sp. nov. is represented exclusively by leaf cuticles extracted by coal maceration, and it probably inhabited the low banks of peat bogs. The presence of the genus Eretmophyllum in the Early Jurassic of France and Eastern Siberia shows that it was already widespread in the territory of Eurasia, distributed from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia. This indicates the possible existence of Eretmophyllum species elsewhere in the Early Jurassic such as Central Asia and Northwest China.

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Andrey FROLOV, Irina MASHCHUK.2023.[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),97(4):1014-1025

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  • Received:April 05,2023
  • Revised:May 28,2023
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  • Online: August 17,2023
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