Pliocene Lythrum (loosestrife, Lythraceae) pollen from Portugal and the Neogene establishment of European lineages

Autor(en)

Manuel Vieira, Reinhard Zetter, Mario Coiro, Fridgeir Grimsson

Abstrakt

The fossil record of Lythrum is scarce and every new find brings an extra piece of the puzzle to the obscure phytogeographic history of this genus. Lythrum pollen is unique and has the potential to be recognized in palynological assemblages. Therefore, the few pre-Holocene fossil records are all pollen described from North America, Russia, and Europe. The European records are both most numerous and geologically younger than those from other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Earliest European Lythrum pollen records are of late Miocene age and parallel to starting crown group radiation in the Eurasian clade of Lythrum. European Miocene to Pliocene Lythrum pollen morphology is comparable to that of extant species. Interestingly, the late Miocene expansion of Lythrum into Europe coincides with the decline of Decodon, and Lythrum appears to replace Decodon in late Neogene fossil palynological assemblages.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Paläontologie, Department für Botanik und Biodiversitätsforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship

Journal

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Band

296

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

0034-6667

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104548

Publikationsdatum

01-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

105117 Paläobotanik, 106008 Botanik, 105118 Paläontologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Palaeontology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8b1ce676-e4db-4978-8c37-ddc297eefaef