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
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https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/pliocene-lythrum-loosestrife-lythraceae-pollen-from-portugal-and-the-neogene-establishment-of-european-lineages(8b1ce676-e4db-4978-8c37-ddc297eefaef).html