The first discovery of mosses (Bryopsida) in the Lower Jurassic of Eastern Siberia

Andrey O. Frolov; Sergei G. Kazanovsky; Ilya V. Enushchenko

doi:10.54991/jop.2022.1842

Authors

Andrey O. Frolov Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Russian Academy of Sciences, 128, Lermontova str., Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
Sergei G. Kazanovsky Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 132, Lermontova str., Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
Ilya V. Enushchenko All–Russian Plant Quarantine Center, 77, Krasnoyarskaya str., Irkutsk, 664023, Russia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.2022.1842

Keywords:

Palaeodichelyma, Bryokhutuliinia, Lower Jurassic, Irkutsk Coal Basin, Sporophyte, Gametophyte

Abstract

Most of the known diversity of Jurassic mosses comes from the Upper Jurassic of China, Mongolia, and Asiatic Russia. The Early Jurassic mosses are not known in Siberia. According to the study of shoots of bryophytes from the Prisayan Formation (Early–Middle Jurassic) of the Irkutsk Coal Basin (Eastern Siberia), two new species of mosses are established: Bryokhutuliinia ignatovii sp. nov. and Palaeodichelyma kiritchkovae sp. nov. The stem microstructures of B. ignatovii distinguish it clearly from other representatives of Bryokhutuliinia Ignatov from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Mongolia and Transbaikalia. P. kiritchkovae is the only known representative preserved with sporophytes of Palaeodichelyma Ignatov & Shcherbakov.

सारांश

जुरासिक मोसस की अधिकांश ज्ञात विविध प्रजातियाँ चीन, मंगोलिया और एशियाटिक रूस के ऊपरी जुरासिक में पाई जाती है। प्रारंभिक जुरासिक मॉस की खोज साइबेरिया में ज्ञात नहीं है। इरकुत्स्क कोयला द्रोणी (पूर्वी साइबेरिया) के प्रिसायन शैलसमूह (प्रारंभिक-मध्य जुरासिक) से ब्रायोफाइट्स के तने के अध्ययन के परिणामस्वरूप, मोसस की दो नई प्रजातियां स्थापित की गई हैं: ब्रायोखुटुलिनिया इग्नाटोवी (नवप्रजाति) और पेलियोडिचेलेमा किरीचकोवे (नवप्रजाति)। बी. इग्नाटोवी के तने की सूक्ष्म संरचना इसे मंगोलिया और ट्रांसबाइकलिया के जुरासिक और क्रिटेशियस से प्राप्त ब्रायोखुटुलिनिया इग्नाटोव के अन्य प्रतिनिधियों से स्पष्ट रूप से अलग करती है। पी. किरीचकोवे एकमात्र ज्ञात प्रजाति है जो पेलियोडिचेलेमा इग्नाटोव एवं शेर्बाकोव के स्पोरोफाइट्स के साथ संरक्षित है।

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