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This article records new [[Biology:Taxon|taxa]] of [[Biology:Plant|plant]]s that are scheduled to be [[Biology:Binomial nomenclature|described]] during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to [[Biology:Paleobotany|paleobotany]] that are scheduled to occur in the year 2017.

==Ferns and fern allies==
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! Authors
! Age
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! Notes
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''[[Biology:Annularia|Annularia sardiniana]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Christopher J. Cleal |author2=Giovanni G. Scanu |author3=Carla Buosi |author4=Paola Pittau |author5=Evelyn Kustatscher |year=2017 |title=Middle Pennsylvanian vegetation of the San Giorgio Basin, southern Sardinia (Italy) |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=154 |issue=5 |pages=1155–1170 |doi=10.1017/S0016756816000765 |bibcode=2017GeoM..154.1155C |s2cid=131561709 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Cleal ''et al.''
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Carboniferous (Moscovian)
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San Giorgio Basin
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{{Flag|Italy}}
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A member of [[Biology:Equisetopsida|Equisetopsida]].
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''[[Biology:Annularia|Annularia stopesiae]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Carmen Álvarez-Vázquez |author2=Robert H. Wagner |year=2017 |title=A revision of ''Annularia'' and ''Asterophyllites'' species from the lower Westphalian (Middle Pennsylvanian) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada |journal=Atlantic Geology |volume=53 |pages=17–62 |doi=10.4138/atlgeol.2017.002 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315466218 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Álvarez-Vázquez & Wagner
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Carboniferous (Westphalian)
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br/>({{Flag|Nova Scotia}})
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An ''[[Biology:Annularia|Annularia]]'' species.
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''[[Biology:Arthropitys|Arthropitys barthelii]]''<ref name=RPPArthropitys>{{Cite journal|author1=Rodrigo Neregato |author2=Ronny Rößler |author3=Roberto Iannuzzi |author4=Robert Noll |author5=Rosemarie Rohn |year=2017 |title=New petrified calamitaleans from the Permian of the Parnaíba Basin, central-North Brazil, part II, and phytogeographic implications for late Paleozoic floras |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=237 |pages=37–61 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.001 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.237...37N |hdl=11449/173996 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Neregato ''et al.''
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Permian
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Parnaíba Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A member of [[Biology:Calamitaceae|Calamitaceae]].
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''[[Biology:Arthropitys|Arthropitys tocantinensis]]''<ref name=RPPArthropitys />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Neregato ''et al.''
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Permian
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Parnaíba Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A member of [[Biology:Calamitaceae|Calamitaceae]].
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''Asplenium sanshuiense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Kewang Xu |author2=Wenbo Liao |author3=Jianhua Jin |author4=Xiaoyan Liu |year=2017 |title=''Asplenium sanshuiense'' sp. nov.: the lowest latitude fossil record of the genus |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=1179–1189 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2017endzxb04002&flag=1 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.13353 |s2cid=135376004 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Xu & Jin ''in'' Xu ''et al.''
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Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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Huachong Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Fern|fern]], a species of ''[[Biology:Asplenium|Asplenium]]''.
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''Azolla colhuehuapensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Patricia Vallati |author2=Andrea De Sosa Tomas |author3=Gabriel Casal |author4=Marcos Calo |year=2017 |title=Salviniales from the Late Cretaceous of the Golfo San Jorge Basin |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=74 |pages=45–55 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.02.004 |bibcode=2017CrRes..74...45V |url=https://zenodo.org/record/895369 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Vallati ''et al.''
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Late Cretaceous ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
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Lago Colhué Huapi Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A member of [[Biology:Salviniales|Salviniales]], a species of ''[[Biology:Azolla|Azolla]]''.
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''Boweria nowarudensis''<ref name=Kidstoniopteris>{{Cite journal|author1=Jana Frojdová |author2=Josef Pšenička |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Christopher J. Cleal |year=2017 |title=Revision of the Pennsylvanian fern ''Boweria'' Kidston and the establishment of the new genus ''Kidstoniopteris'' |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=236 |pages=33–58 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.011 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.236...33F }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Frojdová ''et al.''
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Carboniferous (early Moscovian)
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{{Flag|Poland}}
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A [[Biology:Leptosporangiate fern|leptosporangiate fern]] belonging to the group Filicales.
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''Claytosmunda chengii''<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|author1=Benjamin Bomfleur |author2=Guido W. Grimm |author3=Stephen McLoughlin |year=2017 |title=The fossil Osmundales (Royal Ferns)—a phylogenetic network analysis, revised taxonomy, and evolutionary classification of anatomically preserved trunks and rhizomes |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3433 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3433 |pmid=28713650 |pmc=5508817 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Nom. nov
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Valid
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Bomfleur, Grimm & McLoughlin
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Middle Jurassic
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Osmundaceae|Osmundaceae]]; a replacement name for ''Ashicaulis claytoniites'' Cheng (2011).
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''[[Biology:Osmundastrum pulchellum|Osmundastrum pulchellum]]''<ref name=":0"/>
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Comb. nov.
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Valid
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Bomfleur, Grimm & McLoughlin
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Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian-Toarcian)
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[[Earth:Djupadal Formation|Djupadal Formation]]
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{{Flag|Sweden}}
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A member of [[Biology:Osmundaceae|Osmundaceae]]. Originally described as a species of ''[[Biology:Osmunda|Osmunda]]''; transferred to the genus ''[[Biology:Osmundastrum|Osmundastrum]]''.
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[[Image:Osmundastrum-Pulchellum-rhizome.jpg|thumb|Rhizome]]
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''Costatoperforosporites friisiae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mário Miguel Mendes |author2=Eduardo Barrón |author3=David J. Batten |author4=João Pais |year=2017 |title=A new species of the spore genus ''Costatoperforosporites'' from Early Cretaceous deposits in Portugal and its taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental significance |journal=Grana |volume=56 |issue=6 |pages=401–409 |doi=10.1080/00173134.2016.1269189 |s2cid=90049504 |hdl=20.500.12468/754 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Mendes ''et al.''
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Early Cretaceous (late [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]–early [[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
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Lusitanian Basin
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{{Flag|Portugal}}
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A member of [[Biology:Anemiaceae|Anemiaceae]] described on the basis of spores.
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''Cystodium sorbifolioides''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ledis Regalado |author2=Alexander R. Schmidt |author3=Marc S. Appelhans |author4=Bork Ilsemann |author5=Harald Schneider |author6=Michael Krings |author7=Jochen Heinrichs |year=2017 |title=A fossil species of the enigmatic early polypod fern genus ''Cystodium'' (Cystodiaceae) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 14615 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-14985-7 |pmid=29097728 |pmc=5668433 |bibcode=2017NatSR...714615R }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Regalado ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (earliest [[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
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{{Flag|Myanmar}}
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A [[Biology:Fern|fern]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Cystodiaceae|Cystodiaceae]].
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[[File:Cystodium sorbifolioides Holotype fig1 A.jpg|thumb|center|upright|''Cystodium sorbifolioides'']]
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''Goniophlebium macrosorum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Cong-Li Xu |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Tao Su |author4=Xian-Chun Zhang |author5=Shu-Feng Li |author6=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2017 |title=The first megafossil record of ''Goniophlebium'' (Polypodiaceae) from the Middle Miocene of Asia and its paleoecological implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=543–552 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2017.01.006 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Xu & Zhou ''in'' Xu ''et al.''
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Miocene
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Fern|fern]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Polypodiaceae|Polypodiaceae]].
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''Hymenophyllum iwatsukii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fabiany Herrera |author2=Robbin C. Moran |author3=Gongle Shi |author4=Niiden Ichinnorov |author5=Masamichi Takahashi |author6=Peter R. Crane |author7=Patrick S. Herendeen |year=2017 |title=An exquisitely preserved filmy fern (Hymenophyllaceae) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=9 |pages=1370–1381 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1700246 |pmid=29885232 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Herrera ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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{{Flag|Mongolia}}
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A [[Biology:Hymenophyllaceae|filmy fern]], a species of ''[[Biology:Hymenophyllum|Hymenophyllum]]''.
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''Kidstoniopteris''<ref name=Kidstoniopteris />
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Frojdová ''et al.''
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Carboniferous (early Moscovian)
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{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A [[Biology:Leptosporangiate fern|leptosporangiate fern]] belonging to the group Filicales; a new genus for ''"Boweria" minor'' Kidston (1923).
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''Korallipteris alineae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=John G. Conran |author2=Joseph A. Jackson |author3=Daphne E. Lee |author4=Elizabeth M. Kennedy |year=2017 |title=''Gleichenia''-like ''Korallipteris alineae'' sp. nov. macrofossils (Polypodiophyta) from the Miocene Landslip Hill silcrete, New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=258–275 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.2017.1317278 |s2cid=91077403 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Conran ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
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{{Flag|New Zealand}}
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A [[Biology:Fern|fern]].
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''Lygodium goonyellum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrew C. Rozefelds |author2=Mary E. Dettmann |author3=H. Trevor Clifford |author4=Raymond J. Carpenter |year=2017 |title=''Lygodium'' (Schizaeaceae) in southern high latitudes during the Cenozoic — A new species and new insights into character evolution in the genus |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=247 |pages=40–52 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.07.001 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.247...40R |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rozefelds ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]–early Miocene
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Lygodium|Lygodium]]''.
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''Rhabdoxylon taiyuanense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Jing Ma|author2=Shi-Jun Wang|author3=Ke-Qin Sun|name-list-style=amp |year=2017 |title=''Rhabdoxylon taiyuanense'' n. sp.: A new botryopterid fern from the Lower Permian of Shanxi Province, North China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=489–499 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.05.002 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Ma, Wang & Sun
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Early Permian
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Taiyuan Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A fern belonging to the family Botryopteridaceae.
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''Salvinia bogotensis''<ref name=RPPSalvinia>{{Cite journal|author1=Nicolás Pérez-Consuegra |author2=Aura Cuervo-Gómez |author3=Camila Martínez |author4=Camilo Montes |author5=Fabiany Herrera |author6=Santiago Madriñán |author7=Carlos Jaramillo |year=2017 |title=Paleogene ''Salvinia'' (Salviniaceae) from Colombia and their paleobiogeographic implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=246 |pages=85–108 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.06.003 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.246...85P }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Pérez-Consuegra ''et al.''
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Paleogene
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{{Flag|Colombia}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Salvinia|Salvinia]]''.
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''Salvinia magdalenensis''<ref name=RPPSalvinia />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Pérez-Consuegra ''et al.''
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Paleogene
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{{Flag|Colombia}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Salvinia|Salvinia]]''.
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==Liverworts==
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Conocephalumites''<ref name=Conocephalumites>{{Cite journal|author1=Caiqing Guo |author2=Jianxin Yao |author3=Jianwei Zhang |author4=Pengcheng Wu |author5=Chengsen Li |year=2017 |title=New fossil liverworts from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=91 |issue=5 |pages=1542–1552 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2017endzxb05003&flag=1 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.13399 |s2cid=133867341 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Wu & Guo ''in'' Guo ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Conocephalaceae|Conocephalaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. hexagonites''.
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''Frullania pinnata''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jochen Heinrichs |author2=Kathrin Feldberg |author3=Patrick Müller |author4=Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp |author5=Matt von Konrat |author6=Bork Ilsemann |author7=Michael Krings |year=2017 |title=''Frullania pinnata'' spec. nov. (Frullaniaceae, Porellales), a new leafy liverwort in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=78 |pages=56–60 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.05.030 |bibcode=2017CrRes..78...56H }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Disputed
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Heinrichs ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
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{{Flag|Myanmar}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]], a species of ''[[Biology:Frullania|Frullania]]''. Li ''et al.'' (2021) considered it to be conspecific with ''Frullania baerlocheri''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ya Li |author2=Li-Qin Li |author3=Kathrin Feldberg |author4=Peng-Cheng Wu |author5=Harald Schneider |author6=Alexander R. Schmidt |author7=Yong-Dong Wang |year=2021 |title=Re-appraisal of two fossil Frullaniaceae species (Marchantiophyta, Porellales) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=124 |pages=Article 104803 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104803 |bibcode=2021CrRes.12404803L |s2cid=233841009 }}</ref>
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''Frullania rovnoi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yuriy S. Mamontov |author2=Jörn Hentschel |author3=Nadezhda A. Konstantinova |author4=Evgeny E. Perkovsky |author5=Michael S. Ignatov |year=2017 |title=Hepatics from Rovno amber (Ukraine), 6. ''Frullania rovnoi'', sp. nov. |journal=Journal of Bryology |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=336–341 |doi=10.1080/03736687.2017.1343220 |s2cid=90476291 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Mamontov ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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Rovno amber
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{{Flag|Ukraine}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]], a species of ''[[Biology:Frullania|Frullania]]''.
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''Lejeunea hamatiloba''<ref name=RPPLejeunea>{{Cite journal|author1=Gaik Ee Lee |author2=Laura Kolberg |author3=Julia Bechteler |author4=Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp |author5=Matthew A.M. Renner |author6=Alexander R. Schmidt |author7=Jochen Heinrichs |year=2017 |title=The leafy liverwort genus ''Lejeunea'' (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) in Miocene Dominican amber |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=238 |pages=144–150 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.013 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.238..144L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Lee ''et al.''
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Miocene
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[[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]]
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{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
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A liverwort, a species of ''[[Biology:Lejeunea|Lejeunea]]''.
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''Lejeunea resinata''<ref name=RPPLejeunea />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Lee ''et al.''
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Miocene
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[[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]]
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{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
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A liverwort, a species of ''[[Biology:Lejeunea|Lejeunea]]''.
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''Lejeunea urbanioides''<ref name=RPPLejeunea />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Lee ''et al.''
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Miocene
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[[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]]
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{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
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A liverwort, a species of ''[[Biology:Lejeunea|Lejeunea]]''.
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''Metzgerites multifidus''<ref name=Conocephalumites />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Wu ''in'' Guo ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Metzgeriaceae|Metzgeriaceae]].
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''[[Biology:Pallaviciniites|Pallaviciniites stricta]]''<ref name=Conocephalumites />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Wu & Guo ''in'' Guo ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Pallaviciniaceae|Pallaviciniaceae]].
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''Pellites''<ref name=Conocephalumites />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Wu & Guo ''in'' Guo ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Pelliaceae|Pelliaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. latithallus''.
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''Protofrullania''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jochen Heinrichs |author2=Kathrin Feldberg |author3=Julia Bechteler |author4=Patrick Müller |author5=Matthew A.M. Renner |author6=Jiří Váňa |author7=Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp |author8=Alexander R. Schmidt |year=2017 |title=A fossil genus of the Frullaniaceae (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=74 |pages=223–226 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.02.023 |bibcode=2017CrRes..74..223H }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Heinrichs ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]]-[[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
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{{Flag|Myanmar}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Jubulaceae|Frullaniaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. cornigera''.
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''Radula cretacea''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Julia Bechteler |author2=Alexander R. Schmidt |author3=Matthew A. M. Renner |author4=Bo Wang |author5=Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar |author6=Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp |author7=Kathrin Feldberg |author8=Jochen Heinrichs |year=2017 |title=A Burmese amber fossil of ''Radula'' (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) provides insights into the Cretaceous evolution of epiphytic lineages of leafy liverworts |journal=Fossil Record |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=201–213 |doi=10.5194/fr-20-201-2017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Bechteler, Renner, Schäfer-Verwimp & Heinrichs ''in'' Bechteler ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Albian|Albian]] or early [[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
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{{Flag|Myanmar}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Radula (plant)|Radula]]'' liverwort
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''Riccardiothallus palmata''<ref name=Conocephalumites />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Wu & Guo ''in'' Guo ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Aneuraceae|Aneuraceae]].
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==Lycophytes==
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Cymastrobus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mathilde Evreïnoff |author2=Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud |author3=Anne-Laure Decombeix |author4=Renaud Lebrun |author5=Philippe Steemans |author6=Paul Tafforeau |year=2017 |title=A new Late Devonian isoetalean lycopsid from New South Wales, Australia: ''Cymastrobus irvingii'' gen. et sp. nov. |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=Article number 20.3.47A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2017/2012-devonian-lycopsid-cone |doi=10.26879/767 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Evreïnoff ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] ([[Earth:Famennian|Famennian]])
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Mandowa Mudstone
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of Lycopsida belonging to the group [[Biology:Isoetales|Isoetales]]. Genus includes new species ''C. irvingii''.
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''[[Biology:Lepidodendron|Lepidodendron vaselgense]]''<ref name=lycopsidsKarantrav>{{Cite journal|author1=O. A. Orlova |author2=A. V. Tevelev |author3=D. A. Mamontov |author4=E. V. Anikeeva |year=2017 |title=Late Carboniferous lycopsids of the Karantrav locality (the Southern Urals) |journal=Moscow University Geology Bulletin |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=28–36 |doi=10.3103/S0145875217010100 |s2cid=132583239 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Anikeeva & Orlova ''in'' Orlova ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]]
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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|-
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''Lepidostrobus tevelevii''<ref name=lycopsidsKarantrav />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Orlova, Mamontov & Anikeeva ''in'' Orlova ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]]
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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|-
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''Nothostigma''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=A review of the nomenclature of ''Cyclostigma'' (Cyclostigmatales: Cyclostigmataceae; fossil Isoetophyta) |journal=Taxon |volume=66 |issue=6 |pages=1456–1465 |doi=10.12705/666.12 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Doweld
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Carboniferous and Permian
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{{Flag|Brazil}}<br>
{{Flag|Egypt}}<br>
{{Flag|India}}<br>
{{Flag|Peru}}<br>
{{Flag|Spain}}
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A lycophyte. The type species is ''"Bothrodendron" pacificum'' Steinmann.
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|-
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''Sengelia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Kelly K. S. Matsunaga |author2=Alexandru M. F. Tomescu |year=2017 |title=An organismal concept for ''Sengelia radicans'' gen. et sp. nov. – morphology and natural history of an Early Devonian lycophyte |journal=Annals of Botany |volume=119 |issue=7 |pages=1097–1113 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcw277 |pmid=28334100 |pmc=5604611 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Matsunaga & Tomescu
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Early Devonian
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[[Earth:Beartooth Butte Formation|Beartooth Butte Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A [[Biology:Lycophyte|lycophyte]]. Genus includes new species ''S. radicans''.
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|-
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''Sublepidodendron nelidovense''<ref name=LR15>{{Cite journal|author1=Yu.V. Mosseichik |author2=I.A. Ignatiev |year=2017 |title=Viséan lycopods from the Moscow Basin: New species and suprageneric affiliation |journal=Lethaea Rossica |volume=15 |pages=1–19 |url=http://paleobot.ru/pdf/01_2017_15.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Mosseichik ''in'' Mosseichik & Ignatiev
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Viséan)
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Moscow Coal Basin
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{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tver Oblast}})
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A [[Biology:Lycopodiophyta|lycopod]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Lepidodendrales|Lepidodendrales]] and the family Flemingitaceae.
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|-
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''Sublepidodendron puchkoviorum''<ref name=LR15 />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mosseichik ''in'' Mosseichik & Ignatiev
|
[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Viséan)
|
Moscow Coal Basin
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{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tula Oblast}})
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A [[Biology:Lycopodiophyta|lycopod]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Lepidodendrales|Lepidodendrales]] and the family Flemingitaceae.
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|-
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''Tenellisporites antarcticus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=David John Cantrill |author2=Allan C. Ashworth |author3=Adam R. Lewis |year=2017 |title=Megaspores of an early Miocene aquatic lycopod (Isoetales) from Antarctica |journal=Grana |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=112–123 |doi=10.1080/00173134.2016.1144784 |s2cid=88739607 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Cantrill ''in'' Cantrill, Ashworth & Lewis
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Early Miocene
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[[Earth:Antarctica|Antarctica]]
|
A [[Biology:Lycopodiophyta|lycopod]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Isoetales|Isoetales]] described on the basis of [[Biology:Megaspore|megaspore]]s.
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|-
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''Ulodendron ulianovii''<ref name=LR15 />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mosseichik ''in'' Mosseichik & Ignatiev
|
[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Viséan)
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Moscow Coal Basin
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{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tver Oblast}})
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A [[Biology:Lycopodiophyta|lycopod]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Lepidodendrales|Lepidodendrales]] and the family Flemingitaceae.
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|-
|}

==Ginkgoales==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Baiera triassica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia C. Gnaedinger |author2=Ana M. Zavattieri |year=2017 |title=First record of voltzialean male cone (''Lutanthus'') and podocarpacean female cone (''Rissikistrobus'') from the Late Triassic of Argentina, including new plant remains from the Paso Flores Formation |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=224–246 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.18.10.2016.2986 |s2cid=131879609 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia C. Gnaedinger |author2=Ana M. Zavattieri |year=2017 |title=A new name for ''Baiera taeniata'' Geinitz, ''Ginkgo taeniata'' (Geinitz) Frenguelli, and ''Sphenobaiera taeniata'' (Geinitz) Morel, Ganuza and Zúñiga |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=252–254 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.18.10.2016.3058 |s2cid=89163072 }}</ref>
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Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Gnaedinger & Zavattieri
|
Late Triassic
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Paso Flores Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A replacement name for ''Baiera taeniata'' Geinitz (1876) (preoccupied).
|
|-
|
''Ginkgo hamiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zixi Wang |author2=Fankai Sun |author3=Peihong Jin |author4=Yingquan Chen |author5=Jingwei Chen |author6=Peng Deng |author7=Guolin Yang |author8=Bainian Sun |year=2017 |title=A New Species of ''Ginkgo'' with Male Cones and Pollen Grains in situ from the Middle Jurassic of Eastern Xinjiang, China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=9–21 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201701004&flag=1 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.13060 |s2cid=133030173 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang & Sun ''in'' Wang ''et al.''
|
Middle Jurassic
|
Xishanyao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Ginkgo|Ginkgo]]''.
|
|-
|
''Ginkgo neimengensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao-Hui Xu |author2=Liu-Yin Yang |author3=Bai-Nian Sun |author4=Yong-Dong Wang |author5=Ping Chen |year=2017 |title=A new Early Cretaceous ''Ginkgo'' ovulate organ with associated leaves from Inner Mongolia, China and its evolutionary significance |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=244 |pages=163–181 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.05.007 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.244..163X }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Xu ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
Huolinhe Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Ginkgo|Ginkgo]]''.
|
|-
|
''Nagrenia leviana''<ref name=RPPNagrenia>{{Cite journal|author=Natalya Nosova |year=2017 |title=New findings of the female reproductive structures of ''Nagrenia'' Nosova (Ginkgoales) and the seeds of ''Ginkgo gomolitzkyana'' Nosova from the Middle Jurassic of Angren, Uzbekistan |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=239 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.017 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.239....1N }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Nosova
|
Middle Jurassic
|
Angren Formation
|
{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|Ginkgoales]].
|
|-
|
''Nagrenia pilosa''<ref name=RPPNagrenia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Nosova
|
Middle Jurassic
|
Angren Formation
|
{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|Ginkgoales]].
|
|-
|
''Pseudotorellia crista''<ref name=RPPPseudotorellia>{{Cite journal|author1=Junji Horiuchi |author2=Kazuhiko Uemura |year=2017 |title=Paleocene occurrence of ''Pseudotorellia'' Florin (Ginkgoales) from Northeast Japan and the Meso–Cenozoic history of ''Pseudotorellia'' and ''Torellia'' |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=246 |pages=146–160 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.05.011 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.246..146H }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Horiuchi & Uemura
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Minato Formation
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|Ginkgoales]], described on the basis of leaves.
|
|-
|
''Pseudotorellia kimurae''<ref name=RPPPseudotorellia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Horiuchi & Uemura
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Minato Formation
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|Ginkgoales]], described on the basis of leaves.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Sphenobaiera|Sphenobaiera eximia]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yuling Na |author2=Chunlin Sun |author3=Hongshan Wang |author4=David L. Dilcher |author5=Yunfeng Li |author6=Tao Li |year=2017 |title=A brief introduction to the Middle Jurassic Daohugou Flora from Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=247 |pages=53–67 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.08.003 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.247...53N |s2cid=134673649 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Na, Sun & Wang ''in'' Na ''et al.''
|
Middle Jurassic
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Daohugou Beds
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{{Flag|China}}
|
|
|-
|}

==Cycads==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Eobowenia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mario Coiro |author2=Christian Pott |year=2017 |title=''Eobowenia'' gen. nov. from the Early Cretaceous of Patagonia: indication for an early divergence of ''Bowenia''? |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=97 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0943-x |pmid=28388891 |pmc=5383990 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Coiro & Pott
|
Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
|
Anfiteatro de Ticó Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A [[Biology:Cycad|cycad]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Zamiaceae|Zamiaceae]] and the subfamily [[Biology:Bowenioideae|Bowenioideae]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Almargemia|Almargemia]]" incrassata'' Archangelsky (1966).
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|-
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''Oxfordiana''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alan R.T. Spencer |author2=Russell J. Garwood |author3=Andrew R. Rees |author4=Robert J. Raine |author5=Gar W. Rothwell |author6=Neville T.J. Hollingworth |author7=Jason Hilton |year=2017 |title=New insights into Mesozoic cycad evolution: an exploration of anatomically preserved Cycadaceae seeds from the Jurassic Oxford Clay biota |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3723 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3723 |pmid=28875075 |pmc=5578371 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Spencer & Hilton ''in'' Spencer ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Jurassic|Jurassic]] (latest Callovian to earliest Oxfordian)
|
[[Earth:Oxford Clay|Oxford Clay]] Formation
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A [[Biology:Cycad|cycad]]. Genus includes new species ''O. motturii''.
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|-
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''Zamuneria''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=L.C.A. Martínez |author2=A. Iglesias |author3=A.E. Artabe |author4=A.N. Varela |author5=S. Apesteguía |year=2017 |title=A new Encephalarteae trunk (Cycadales) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia (Mata Amarilla Formation, Austral Basin), Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=72 |pages=81–94 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.008 |bibcode=2017CrRes..72...81M |url=https://zenodo.org/record/848798 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Martínez ''et al.''
|
Late Cretaceous
|
[[Earth:Mata Amarilla Formation|Mata Amarilla Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A [[Biology:Cycad|cycad]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Zamiaceae|Zamiaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''Z. amyla''.
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|-
|}

==Conifers==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
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''Cathaya vanderburghii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Heinrich Winterscheid |author2=Rolf Gossmann |year=2017 |title=Validation of ''Cathaya vanderburghii'' (Pinaceae) from European Neogene |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=302 |issue=2 |pages=188–192 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.302.2.9 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gossmann ex Winterscheid & Gossmann
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}<br>
{{Flag|Italy}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cathaya|Cathaya]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cupressinocladus guyangensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Peihong Jin |author2=Teng Mao |author3=Junling Dong |author4=Zixi Wang |author5=Mingxuan Sun |author6=Xiaohui Xu |author7=Baoxia Du |author8=Bainian Sun |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Cupressinocladus'' from the Lower Cretaceous of Guyang Basin, Inner Mongolia, China and cluster analysis |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=1200–1214 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2017endzxb04004&flag=1 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.13355 |s2cid=133840278 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jin & B.N. Sun ''in'' Jin ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
Guyang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cupressaceae|Cupressaceae]] ''sensu lato''.
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|-
|
''Cupressinoxylon artabeae''<ref name=JSAESCupressinoxylon>{{Cite journal|author1=Daniela P. Ruiz |author2=Mariana Brea |author3=M. Sol Raigemborn |author4=Sergio D. Matheos |year=2017 |title=Conifer woods from the Salamanca Formation (early Paleocene), Central Patagonia, Argentina: Paleoenvironmental implications |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=76 |pages=427–445 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2017.04.006 |bibcode=2017JSAES..76..427R }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ruiz ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
[[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cupressaceae|Cupressaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
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|-
|
''Cupressinoxylon rotundum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=R.R. Pujana |author2=M.E. Raffi |author3=E.B. Olivero |year=2017 |title=Conifer fossil woods from the Santa Marta Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Brandy Bay, James Ross Island, Antarctica |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=77 |pages=28–38 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.04.016 |bibcode=2017CrRes..77...28P }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pujana ''in'' Pujana, Raffi & Olivero
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]]
|
[[Earth:Santa Marta Formation|Santa Marta Formation]]
|
[[Earth:Antarctica|Antarctica]]<br>(James Ross Island)
|
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Elatocladus|Elatocladus heerianus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=N. V. Nosova |author2=A. I. Kiritchkova |author3=E. I. Kostina |year=2017 |title=Leafy shoots and pollen cones of conifers from the Middle Jurassic deposits of the Irkutsk Coal Basin |journal=Paleobotanika |volume=8 |pages=5–27 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322339536 |doi=10.31111/palaeobotany/2017.8.5 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Nosova & Kiritchkova ''in'' Nosova, Kiritchkova & Kostina
|
Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bajocian)
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Prisayan Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Conifer|conifer]].
|
|-
|
''Krassilovidendron''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandra Sokolova |author2=Natalia Gordenko |author3=Natalia Zavialova |year=2017 |title=The most ancient member of the Sequoioideae – The new genus ''Krassilovidendron'' Sokolova, Gordenko et Zavialova (Cupressaceae s.l.) from the Albian–Cenomanian of Western Siberia (Russia) |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=77 |pages=1–27 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.04.014 |bibcode=2017CrRes..77....1S }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sokolova, Gordenko & Zavialova
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]]–[[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Kemerovo Oblast}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Sequoioideae|Sequoioideae]]. Genus includes new species ''K. fecundum''.
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|-
|
''Medulloprotaxodioxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mingli Wan |author2=Wan Yang |author3=Peng Tang |author4=Lujun Liu |author5=Jun Wang |year=2017 |title=''Medulloprotaxodioxylon triassicum'' gen. et sp. nov., a taxodiaceous conifer wood from the Norian (Triassic) of northern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=241 |pages=70–84 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.009 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.241...70W }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wan ''et al.''
|
Late Triassic (Norian)
|
Huangshanjie Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Conifer|conifer]] described on the basis of fossil wood, possibly an ancestral form of the [[Biology:Sequoioideae|Sequoioideae]]. Genus includes new species ''M. triassicum''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Pararaucaria|Pararaucaria taquetrensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ignacio Escapa |author2=Andrew Leslie |year=2017 |title=A new Cheirolepidiaceae (Coniferales) from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia (Argentina): Reconciling the records of impression and permineralized fossils |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=322–334 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1600321 |pmid=28213347 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Escapa & Leslie
|
Early Jurassic
|
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cheirolepidiaceae|Cheirolepidiaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Pentakonos''<ref name=Pentakonos>{{Cite journal|author1=Fabiany Herrera |author2=Gongle Shi |author3=Patrick Knopf |author4=Andrew B. Leslie |author5=Niiden Ichinnorov |author6=Masamichi Takahashi |author7=Peter R. Crane |author8=Patrick S. Herendeen |year=2017 |title=Cupressaceae Conifers from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=1 |pages=19–41 |doi=10.1086/689577 |s2cid=88563588 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Herrera ''et al.''
|
Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]-[[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cupressaceae|Cupressaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. diminutus''.
|
|-
|
''Pinus arunachalensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahasin Ali Khan |author2=Subir Bera |year=2017 |title=First discovery of fossil winged seeds of ''Pinus'' L. (family Pinaceae) from the Indian Cenozoic and its palaeobiogeographic significance |journal=Journal of Earth System Science |volume=126 |issue=5 |pages=63 |doi=10.1007/s12040-017-0846-7 |bibcode=2017JESS..126...63K |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Junior homonym
|
Khan & Bera
|
Miocene
|
Dafla Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A [[Biology:Pine|pine]]. The name ''P. arunachalensis'' turned out to be preoccupied by ''[[Biology:Pinus arunachalensis|Pinus arunachalensis]]'' Srivastava (2017); Khan & Bera (2018) coined a replacement name ''Pinus daflaensis''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahasin Ali Khan |author2=Subir Bera |year=2018 |title=''Pinus daflaensis'' (Pinaceae), a replacement name for ''P. arunachalensis'' Khan & Bera |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=334 |issue=2 |pages=200 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.9 }}</ref>
|
|-
|
''Pinus nanfengensis''<ref name=PinusXianfengBasin>{{Cite journal|author1=Hao-Bo Wang |author2=Alexei A. Oskolski |author3=Frédéric M.B. Jacques |author4=Yue-Hua Wang |author5=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2017 |title=Lignified woods of ''Pinus'' (Pinaceae) from the late Miocene of central Yunnan, China, and their biogeographic and paleoclimatic implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=553–565 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.06.003 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Xianfeng Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Pine|pine]].
|
|-
|
''Pinus uniseriata''<ref name=PinusXianfengBasin />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Xianfeng Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Pine|pine]].
|
|-
|
''Pityostrobus pluriresinosa''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Selena Y. Smith |author2=Ruth A. Stockey |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |author4=Stefan A. Little |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Pityostrobus'' (Pinaceae) from the Cretaceous of California: moving towards understanding the Cretaceous radiation of Pinaceae |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=69–81 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1143885 |s2cid=88292891 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Smith ''et al.''
|
Early Cretaceous
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|California}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Pinaceae|Pinaceae]], a species of ''Pityostrobus''.
|
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''Platycladus tengchongensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Peng Deng |author2=Junling Dong |author3=Zixi Wang |author4=Xuelian Wang |author5=Guolin Yang |author6=Yuli He |author7=Yifan Hua |author8=Bainian Sun |year=2017 |title=Cuticular microstructure of ''Platycladus tengchongensis'' sp.nov.from the Pliocene of Tengchong, Yunnan, and reconstruction of paleoatmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> |journal=Earth Science Frontiers |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=65–77 |doi=10.13745/j.esf.2017.01.005 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Deng & Sun ''in'' Deng ''et al.''
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Late Pliocene
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Mangbang Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Platycladus|Platycladus]]''.
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''Podocarpoxylon multiparenchymatosum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Roberto R. Pujana |author2=Daniela P. Ruiz |year=2017 |title=''Podocarpoxylon'' Gothan reviewed in the light of a new species from the Eocene of Patagonia |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=220–244 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170169 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Pujana & Ruiz
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[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])<ref name=JSAESCupressinoxylon />-[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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Río Turbio Formation<br>
[[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]<ref name=JSAESCupressinoxylon />
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Podocarpaceae|Podocarpaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
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''Podocarpoxylon prumnopityoides''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia Gnaedinger |author2=Rodolfo A. Coria |author3=Eva Koppelhus |author4=Silvio Casadío |author5=Maisa Tunik |author6=Philip Currie |year=2017 |title=First Lower Cretaceous record of Podocarpaceae wood associated with dinosaur remains from Patagonia, Neuquén Province, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=78 |pages=228–239 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.06.014 |bibcode=2017CrRes..78..228G |url=https://rid.unrn.edu.ar/jspui/handle/20.500.12049/5349 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Gnaedinger ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Valanginian|Valanginian]])
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[[Earth:Mulichinco Formation|Mulichinco Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Podocarpaceae|Podocarpaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
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''[[Biology:Podozamites|Podozamites doludenkoae]]''<ref name=RPPPodozamites>{{Cite journal|author1=Natalya Nosova |author2=Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert |author3=Anna Kiritchkova |year=2017 |title=New data on the epidermal structure of the leaves of ''Podozamites'' Braun |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=238 |pages=88–104 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.005 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.238...88N }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Nosova, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert & Kiritchkova
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Early and Middle Jurassic (Toarcian-Bajocian)
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Karadiirmen' Formation<br>
Kokala Formation
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{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
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A [[Biology:Conifer|conifer]] belonging to the family Podozamitaceae, described on the basis of leaves.
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''[[Biology:Podozamites|Podozamites irkutensis]]''<ref name=RPPPodozamites />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Nosova, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert & Kiritchkova
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Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bajocian)
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Prisayan Formation
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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A [[Biology:Conifer|conifer]] belonging to the family Podozamitaceae, described on the basis of leaves.
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''Retrophyllum spiralifolium''<ref name=AJB1049Retrophyllum>{{Cite journal|author1=Peter Wilf |author2=Michael P. Donovan |author3=N. Rubén Cúneo |author4=María A. Gandolfo |year=2017 |title=The fossil flip-leaves (''Retrophyllum'', Podocarpaceae) of southern South America |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=9 |pages=1344–1369 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1700158 |pmid=29885237 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/75287 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Wilf ''in'' Wilf ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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La Huitrera Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Retrophyllum|Retrophyllum]]''.
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''Retrophyllum superstes''<ref name=AJB1049Retrophyllum />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Wilf ''in'' Wilf ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
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Lefipán Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Retrophyllum|Retrophyllum]]''.
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''Scarburgia baiyanghensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Tao Yang |author2=Li-ying Yi |author3=Jing-wen E |author4=Xiao-rong Guo |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Scarburgia'' from Middle Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China |journal=Global Geology |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=327–332 |doi=10.3969/j.issn.1004-5589.2017.02.001 |url=http://sjdz.jlu.edu.cn/EN/abstract/abstract9274.shtml }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Yang ''et al.''
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Middle Jurassic
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Xishanyao Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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Possibly a member of [[Biology:Podocarpaceae|Podocarpaceae]].
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''Storgaardia gansuensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qi-Jia Li |author2=Peng-Cheng An |author3=Jun Li |author4=Zhen-Rui Zhao |author5=Jing-Yu Wu |author6=Yong-Dong Wang |author7=Yu-Ting Zhu |author8=Su-Ting Ding |year=2017 |title=Cuticular structure of ''Storgaardia'' Harris from the Middle Jurassic of Northwest China and its systematic and biogeographical significances |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=149–158 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.04.005 |s2cid=130503476 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Li & Wu ''in'' Li ''et al.''
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Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bajocian)
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Yan'an Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of Coniferales, a species of ''Storgaardia''.
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|-
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''Stutzeliastrobus''<ref name=Pentakonos />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Herrera ''et al.''
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Cretaceous ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]-[[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]]<ref name=bohemicus />)
|
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{{Flag|Czech Republic}}<ref name=bohemicus /><br>
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Cupressaceae|Cupressaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''S. foliatus'', as well as ''"Cyparissidium" bohemicum'' Bayer (1914).<ref name=bohemicus>{{Cite journal|author1=Jiří Kvaček |author2=Zuzana Heřmanová |author3=Jana Bruthansová |author4=Jakub Karch |author5=Jan Žemlička |author6=Jan Dudák |year=2018 |title=''Stutzeliastrobus bohemicus'' comb. nov. – basal Cupressaceae conifer from the Cenomanian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Central Europe |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=74 |issue=1–2 |pages=179–188 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/13_Kvacek_179-188.pdf |doi=10.1515/if-2017-0013 |s2cid=172092721 }}</ref>
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==Other seed plants==
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|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Adiantites tevelevii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Olga A. Orlova |author2=Ksenia G. Pustovoit |author3=Ekaterina V. Anikeeva |year=2017 |title=Pteridosperms from the Lower Carboniferous of South Urals, Russia |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=303 |issue=7 |pages=945–955 |doi=10.1007/s00606-017-1421-z |s2cid=20801309 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Orlova, Pustovoit & Anikeeva
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Viséan)
|
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]].
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|-
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''Allicospermum papillosum''<ref name=RPPAllicospermum>{{Cite journal|author1=Natalya Nosova |author2=Aleksej Vladimirovič Hvalj |year=2017 |title=New findings of the seeds ''Allicospermum'' Harris (gymnosperms) from the Middle Jurassic of Angren, Uzbekistan |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=247 |pages=26–39 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.08.001 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.247...26N }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Nosova & Hvalj
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Middle Jurassic
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{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
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A [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] seed, possibly of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|ginkgoalean]] affinity.
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|-
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''Allicospermum uzbekistanicum''<ref name=RPPAllicospermum />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Nosova & Hvalj
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Middle Jurassic
|
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{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
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A [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] seed.
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|-
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''Allicospermum valentinae''<ref name=RPPAllicospermum />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Nosova & Hvalj
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Middle Jurassic
|
|
{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
|
A [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] seed, possibly of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|ginkgoalean]] affinity.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Caytonanthus|Caytonanthus rewaensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Neeru Prakash |author2=Neelam Das |year=2017 |title=First record of microsporophyll genus ''Caytonanthus'' Thomas from Early Cretaceous beds of South Rewa Gondwana Basin, India: Its evolutionary and palaeogeographical significance |journal=Island Arc |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=e12163 |doi=10.1111/iar.12163 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prakash & Das
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Early Cretaceous
|
Bansa Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
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A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Caytoniaceae|Caytoniaceae]].
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|-
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''Dicroidium bandelii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=A. Abu Hamad |author2=P. Blomenkemper |author3=H. Kerp |author4=B. Bomfleur |year=2017 |title=''Dicroidium bandelii'' sp. nov. (corystospermalean foliage) from the Permian of Jordan |journal=PalZ |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=641–648 |doi=10.1007/s12542-017-0384-2 |s2cid=90520943 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Abu Hamad ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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[[Earth:Umm Irna Formation|Umm Irna Formation]]
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{{Flag|Jordan}}
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A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]]. Originally described as a species of ''[[Biology:Dicroidium|Dicroidium]]'', but subsequently transferred to the genus ''Jordaniopteris''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Heidi M. Anderson |author2=Maria Barbacka |author3=Marion K. Bamford |author4=W. B. Keith Holmes |author5=John M. Anderson |year=2019 |title=''Dicroidium'' (foliage) and affiliated wood Part 3 of a reassessment of Gondwana Triassic plant genera and a reclassification of some previously attributed |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=64–92 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2019.1622779 |s2cid=199109037 }}</ref>
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|-
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''Ductoagathoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mingli Wan |author2=Wan Yang |author3=Lujun Liu |author4=Jun Wang |year=2017 |title=''Ductoagathoxylon jimsarensis'' gen. nov. et sp. nov., a gymnospermous stem from the Wuchiapingian (upper Permian) Wutonggou Formation in the Junggar Basin, northern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=241 |pages=13–25 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.004 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.241...13W }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Wan ''et al.''
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Permian ([[Earth:Wuchiapingian|Wuchiapingian]])
|
Wutonggou Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
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A conifer described on the basis of fossilized wood. Genus includes new species ''D. jimsarensis''.
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|-
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''Ephedra canterata''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gabriela G. Puebla |author2=Ari Iglesias |author3=María A. Gómez |author4=Mercedes B. Prámparo |year=2017 |title=Fossil record of ''Ephedra'' in the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian), Argentina |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=130 |issue=6 |pages=975–988 |doi=10.1007/s10265-017-0953-1 |pmid=28528483 |hdl=11336/59894 |s2cid=23766815 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Puebla ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
|
[[Earth:La Cantera Formation|La Cantera Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Ephedra (plant)|Ephedra]]''.
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|-
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''Gigantopteridium utebaturianum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Rebecca A. Koll |author2=William A. DiMichele |author3=Steven R. Manchester |year=2017 |title=Reevaluation and taxonomic clarification of ''Gigantopteridium'' and ''Cathaysiopteris'' of western equatorial Pangea and their biogeographical significance |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=5 |pages=859–870 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2017.25 |bibcode=2017JPal...91..859K |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Koll, DiMichele & Manchester
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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[[Earth:Waggoner Ranch Formation|Waggoner Ranch Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Texas}})
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A [[Biology:Gigantopterid|gigantopterid]].
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|-
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''Hydropterangium roesleri''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert |author2=Evelyn Kustatscher |author3=Christian Pott |author4=Günter Dütsch |author5=Stefan Schmeißner |year=2017 |title=First record of the pollen-bearing reproductive organ ''Hydropterangium'' from the Rhaetian of Germany (Wüstenwelsberg, Upper Franconia) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=284 |issue=2 |pages=139–151 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2017/0655 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]] (Rhaetian)
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
|
|-
|
''Kizelopteris''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Serge V. Naugolnykh |year=2017 |title=''Kizelopteris'', a new genus of climbing pteridosperms from the Lower Carboniferous of the Urals, Russia |journal=Wulfenia |volume=24 |pages=241–254 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321919785 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Naugolnykh
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Viséan)
|
Kizel Coal Basin
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{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Callistophytaceae|Callistophytaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''K. flexuosa ''.
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|-
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''Liaoningia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yong Yang |author2=Long-Biao Lin |author3=David K. Ferguson |author4=Shou-Zhou Zhang |author5=Tao Wan |year=2017 |title=A new gnetalean macrofossil from the Early Cretaceous and its evolutionary significance |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=74 |pages=56–64 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.02.007 |bibcode=2017CrRes..74...56Y }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Yang & Lin ''in'' Yang ''et al.''
|
Early Cretaceous
|
[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Gnetophyta|Gnetophyta]] showing intermediate morphology between the [[Biology:Ephedra (plant)|Ephedraceae]], [[Biology:Gnetum|Gnetaceae]] and [[Biology:Welwitschiaceae|Welwitschiaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''L. decussata''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Nilssonia (plant)|Nilssonia gristhorpensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert |author2=Christian Pott |author3=Christopher J. Cleal |author4=Gea Zijlstra |year=2017 |title=Differentiation of the fossil leaves assigned to ''Taeniopteris'', ''Nilssoniopteris'' and ''Nilssonia'' with a comparison to similar genera |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=237 |pages=100–106 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.009 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.237..100V }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert ''et al.''
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Middle Jurassic (Bajocian)
|
[[Earth:Cloughton Formation|Cloughton Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
|
|-
|
''Nubilora''<ref>{{cite book |author =Xin Wang |title=The Dawn Angiosperms |chapter=Fossil Plants Possibly Related to Angiosperms |editor=Xin Wang |publisher=Springer |pages=259–291 |isbn=978-3-319-58324-2 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-58325-9_7 |series=Springer Geology |date=2018 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
| 
In press
|
Wang
|
[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]] (Norian or Rhaetian)
|
Ganhaizi Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A possible relative of the flowering plants. Genus includes new species ''N. triassica''.
|
|-
|
''Partitisporites krassilovii''<ref name=RPPMakhteshQatan />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Schrank
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Israel}}
|
A [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] described on the basis of fossil pollen.
|
|-
|
''Patokaea''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Grzegorz Pacyna |author2=Maria Barbacka |author3=Danuta Zdebska |author4=Jadwiga Ziaja |author5=Anna Fijałkowska-Mader |author6=Károly Bóka |author7=Tomasz Sulej |year=2017 |title=A new conifer from the Upper Triassic of Southern Poland linking the advanced voltzialean type of ovuliferous scale with ''Brachyphyllum''/''Pagiophyllum''-like leaves |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=245 |pages=28–54 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.05.015 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.245...28P }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pacyna, Barbacka & Zdebska ''in'' Pacyna ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]] (Norian)
|
Grabowa Formation
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Voltziales|Voltziales]] belonging to the new family Patokaeaceae. Genus includes new species ''P. silesiaca''.
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|-
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''Protognetum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yong Yang |author2=Lei Xie |author3=David K. Ferguson |year=2017 |title=Protognetaceae: A new gnetoid macrofossil family from the Jurassic of northeastern China |journal=Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics |volume=28 |pages=67–77 |doi=10.1016/j.ppees.2017.08.001 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Yang, Xie & Ferguson
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Middle Jurassic
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Gnetales|Gnetales]]. Genus includes new species ''P. jurassicum''.
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|-
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''Scytophyllum karamayense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xuezhi He |author2=Tianming Shi |author3=Mingli Wan |author4=Shijun Wang |author5=Jason Hilton |author6=Peng Tang |author7=Jun Wang |year=2017 |title=Peltaspermalean seed ferns with preserved cuticle from the Upper Triassic Karamay Formation in the Junggar Basin, northwestern China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=247 |pages=68–82 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.08.002 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.247...68H |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/43290373/He_et_al_Peltaspermalean_seed_Review_of_Palaeobotany_and_Palynology_2017.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
He ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]]
|
Karamay Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Peltaspermales|peltaspermalean]] [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]].
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|-
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''Sphenarion angustae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Wei Huang |author2=David L. Dilcher |author3=Hongshan Wang |author4=Yu-Ling Na |author5=Yun-Feng Li |author6=Tao Li |author7=Chun-Lin Sun |year=2017 |title=First record of ''Sphenarion'' (Czekanowskiales) with epidermal structures from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=510–518 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.05.005 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang ''et al.''
|
Middle Jurassic
|
Jiulongshan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Czekanowskiales|Czekanowskiales]], a species of ''Sphenarion''.
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|-
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''Tatarina? furcata''<ref name=LR14>{{Cite journal|author1=A.V. Gomankov |author2=M.K. Kiuntzel |author3=S.V. Meyen |year=2017 |title=Новые данные о растительных остатках из верхней перми и нижнего триаса Русской платформы |journal=Lethaea Rossica |volume=14 |pages=28–63 |url=http://paleobot.ru/pdf/02_2017_14.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Gomankov ''in'' Gomankov, Kiuntzel & Meyen
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Late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Peltaspermaceae|Peltaspermaceae]].
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|-
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''Tatarina raristomata''<ref name=LR14 />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gomankov ''in'' Gomankov, Kiuntzel & Meyen
|
Late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Peltaspermaceae|Peltaspermaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Turpanopitys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao Shi |author2=Jianxin Yu |author3=Jean Broutin |author4=Denise Pons |author5=Camille Rossignol |author6=Sylvie Bourquin |author7=Sylvie Crasquin |author8=Qiang Li |author9=Wenchao Shu |year=2017 |title=''Turpanopitys taoshuyuanense'' gen. et sp. nov., a novel woody branch discovered in Early Triassic deposits of the Turpan Basin, Northwest China, and its palaeoecological and palaeoclimate implications |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=468 |pages=314–326 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.026 |bibcode=2017PPP...468..314S |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01422305/file/ShiX_2017.pdf }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Shi ''et al.''
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Early Triassic
|
Turpan Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
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A member of Coniferophyta of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''T. taoshuyuanense''.
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''[[Biology:Umaltolepis|Umaltolepis mongoliensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fabiany Herrera |author2=Gongle Shi |author3=Niiden Ichinnorov |author4=Masamichi Takahashi |author5=Eugenia V. Bugdaeva |author6=Patrick S. Herendeen |author7=Peter R. Crane |year=2017 |title=The presumed ginkgophyte ''Umaltolepis'' has seed-bearing structures resembling those of Peltaspermales and Umkomasiales |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=12 |pages=E2385–E2391 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1621409114 |pmid=28265050 |pmc=5373332 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114E2385H |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Herrera ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]–[[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
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Tevshiin Govi Formation
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{{Flag|Mongolia}}
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A member of Vladimariales (a group of seed plants of uncertain phylogenetic placement).
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''Yangquanoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mingli Wan |author2=Wan Yang |author3=Xuezhi He |author4=Weiming Zhou |author5=Lujun Liu |author6=Jun Wang |year=2017 |title=''Yangquanoxylon miscellum'' gen. nov. et sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood from the Upper Pennsylvanian–lower Permian Taiyuan Formation of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, with reference to the palaeoclimate in North China |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=479 |pages=115–125 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.04.022 |bibcode=2017PPP...479..115W }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Wan ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Pennsylvanian)-early [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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Taiyuan Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''Y. miscellum''.
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==Other plants==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Ahnetia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Anne-Laure Decombeix |author2=Jean Galtier |year=2017 |title=''Ahnetia'', a new lignophyte stem from the Lower Carboniferous of southern Algeria |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=237 |pages=62–74 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.003 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.237...62D |url=https://hal-sde.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01481933 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Decombeix & Galtier
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (late Tournaisian)
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{{Flag|Algeria}}
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Genus includes new species ''A. conradii''
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|-
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''[[Biology:Baragwanathia|Baragwanathia brevifolia]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Petr Kraft |author2=Zlatko Kvaček |year=2017 |title=Where the lycophytes come from? – A piece of the story from the Silurian of peri-Gondwana |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=45 |pages=180–190 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2017.02.001 |bibcode=2017GondR..45..180K }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Junior homonym
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Kraft & Kvaček
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Late [[Earth:Silurian|Silurian]]
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Požáry Formation
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{{Flag|Czech Republic}}
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An aquatic precursor of dry land [[Biology:Lycophyte|lycophyte]]s. The name is preoccupied by ''Baragwanathia brevifolia'' Hundt (1952); Kraft & Kvaček (2021) coined a replacement name ''Baragwanathia brevifolioides''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Petr Kraft |author2=Zlatko Kvaček |year=2021 |title=''Baragwanathia brevifolioides'', a nomen novum for ''B. brevifolia'' P.Kraft et Kvaček, 2017 |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=53–54 |doi=10.37520/fi.2021.006 |s2cid=245034157 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/en/clanek/baragwanathia-brevifolioides-a-nomen-novum-for-b-brevifolia-p-kraft-et-kvacek-2017-2/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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|-
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''Barattoloporellopsis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Bruno R. C. Granier |author2=Ana C. Azerêdo |author3=Miguel M. Ramalho |year=2017 |title=Taxonomic revision of ''Cylindroporella ? lusitanica'' Ramalho, 1970: In search for the origins of the Family Dasycladaceae |journal=Island Arc |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=e12176 |doi=10.1111/iar.12176 |s2cid=131955673 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
|
Granier, Azerêdo & Ramalho
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Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
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{{Flag|Portugal}}
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A [[Biology:Green algae|green alga]], probably a primitive member of the family [[Biology:Dasycladaceae|Dasycladaceae]]; a new genus for ''"Cylindroporella" lusitanica'' Ramalho (1970).
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|-
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''Dorsalistachya''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Shi-Jun Wang |author2=Richard M. Bateman |author3=Alan R. T. Spencer |author4=Jun Wang |author5=Longyi Shao |author6=Jason Hilton |year=2017 |title=Anatomically preserved "strobili" and leaves from the Permian of China (Dorsalistachyaceae, fam. nov.) broaden knowledge of Noeggerathiales and constrain their possible taxonomic affinities |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=1 |pages=127–149 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1600371 |pmid=28062406 |doi-access=free |hdl=10044/1/53470 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang & Spencer ''in'' Wang ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Wuchiapingian|Wuchiapingian]]–[[Earth:Changhsingian|Changhsingian]])
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Xuanwei Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Noeggerathiales|Noeggerathiales]]. Genus includes new species ''D. quadrisegmentorum''
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|-
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''Douaphyton''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hong-He Xu |author2=Yao Wang |author3=Peng Tang |author4=Yi Wang |year=2017 |title=A new diminutive euphyllophyte from the Middle Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China and its evolutionary implications |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=524–531 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2017.1321685 |bibcode=2017Alch...41..524X |s2cid=134385490 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Xu ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] ([[Earth:Givetian|Givetian]])
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Hujiersite Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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An early [[Biology:Euphyllophyte|euphyllophyte]]. Genus includes new species ''D. levigata''
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|-
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''Draconisella mortoni''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Bruno R.C. Granier |author2=Alexandre Lethiers |year=2017 |title=''Draconisella mortoni'' sp. nov., a ''Mizzia''-like Dasycladalean alga from the Lower Cretaceous of Oman |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20.1.6A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2017/1745-a-mizzia-like-alga |doi=10.26879/743 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Granier ''in'' Granier & Lethiers
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Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Hauterivian|Hauterivian]] or [[Earth:Barremian|Barremian]])
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{{Flag|Oman}}
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A [[Biology:Green algae|green alga]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Dasycladales|Dasycladales]] and the family Triploporellaceae.
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|-
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''Enigmodiscus''<ref name=LR14 />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Meyen ''in'' Gomankov, Kiuntzel & Meyen
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Late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of rounded or slightly elongated discs bearing a system of dark strokes. Genus includes new species ''E. multistriatus''.
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|-
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''Grododowon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Paul K. Strother |author2=Wilson A. Taylor |author3=John H. Beck |author4=Marco Vecoli |year=2017 |title=Ordovician spore 'thalli' and the evolution of the plant sporophyte |journal=Palynology |volume=41 |issue=Supplement 1 |pages=57–68 |doi=10.1080/01916122.2017.1361213 |bibcode=2017Paly...41S..57S |s2cid=135330891 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Strother ''in'' Strother ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Ordovician|Ordovician]]
|
Kanosh Shale
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Utah}})
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A [[Biology:Green algae|green alga]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Charophyta|Charophyta]]. Genus includes new species ''G. orthogonalis''.
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|-
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''Hastipellis''<ref name=LR14 />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Meyen ''in'' Gomankov, Kiuntzel & Meyen
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Late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, probably a [[Biology:Bryophyte|bryophyte]], described on the basis of oval or egg-shaped sheets formed by two systems of cells. Genus includes new species ''H. dvinensis''.
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|-
|
''Ilfeldia gregoriensis''<ref name=Ovulepteris>{{Cite journal|author1=Josef Pšenička |author2=Pedro Correia |author3=Zbynĕk Šimůnek |author4=Artur A. Sá |author5=J. Brendan Murphy |author6=Deolinda Flores |year=2017 |title=Revision of ''Ilfeldia'' and establishment of ''Ovulepteris'' gen. nov. from the Pennsylvanian of Europe, with a discussion on their concepts |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=236 |pages=59–73 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.09.001 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.236...59P }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pšenička ''et al.''
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Carboniferous (Gzhelian)
|
Douro Carboniferous Basin
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement; may be affiliated with [[Biology:Fern|fern]]s or [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|pteridosperms]].
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|-
|
''Lamprothamnium? barcinencis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrea De Sosa Tomas |author2=Patricia Vallati |author3=Carles Martín-Closas |year=2017 |title=Biostratigraphy and biogeography of charophytes from the Cerro Barcino Formation (upper Aptian–lower Albian), Cañadón Asfalto Basin, central Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=79 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.07.004 |bibcode=2017CrRes..79....1D }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
De Sosa Tomas, Vallati & Martín-Closas
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]–early [[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
[[Earth:Cerro Barcino Formation|Cerro Barcino Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A green alga belonging to the group Charophyta.
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|-
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''Meantoinea''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexander C. Bippus |author2=Ruth A. Stockey |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |author4=Alexandru M. F. Tomescu |year=2017 |title=Extending the fossil record of Polytrichaceae: Early Cretaceous ''Meantoinea alophosioides'' gen. et sp. nov., permineralized gametophytes with gemma cups from Vancouver Island |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=4 |pages=584–597 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1700002 |pmid=28424206 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Bippus ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
A [[Biology:Moss|moss]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Polytrichaceae|Polytrichaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''M. alophosioides''.
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|-
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''Ovulepteris''<ref name=Ovulepteris />
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Pšenička ''et al.''
|
Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)
|
|
{{Flag|Czech Republic}}
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A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement; may be affiliated with [[Biology:Fern|fern]]s or [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|pteridosperms]]. A new genus for ''"Ilfeldia" robusta'' Obrhel (1957) and ''"Ilfeldia" lobecensis'' Obrhel (1965).
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|-
|
''Scenedesmus texanus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Don G. Benson Jr |author2=Merrell A. Miller |author3=Gordon D. Wood |year=2017 |title=A new Upper Jurassic species of ''Scenedesmus'' from the Bossier Formation, Texas, USA |journal=Palynology |volume=41 |issue=Supplement 1 |pages=262–270 |doi=10.1080/01916122.2017.1360632 |bibcode=2017Paly...41S.262B |s2cid=134796254 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Benson, Miller & Wood
|
Late Jurassic
|
Bossier Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Texas}})
|
A [[Biology:Green algae|green alga]], a species of ''[[Biology:Scenedesmus|Scenedesmus]]''
|
|-
|
''Selliporella cornutuformis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Branko Sokač |author2=Tonći Grgasović |year=2017 |title=On the species of the genus ''Selliporella'' SARTONI & CRESCENTI, 1962 from the Middle Jurassic of the coastal Dinarides of Croatia |journal=Geologia Croatica |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=115–161 |doi=10.4154/gc.2017.15 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sokač & Grgasović
|
Middle Jurassic
|
|
{{Flag|Croatia}}
|
A [[Biology:Green algae|green alga]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Dasycladales|Dasycladales]].
|
|-
|
''Teruelia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Borja Cascales-Miñana |author2=PhIlippe Gerrienne |year=2017 |title=''Teruelia diezii'' gen. et sp. nov.: an early polysporangiophyte from the Lower Devonian of the Iberian Peninsula |journal=Palaeontology |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=199–212 |doi=10.1111/pala.12277 |bibcode=2017Palgy..60..199C |s2cid=133045323 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Cascales-Miñana & Gerrienne
|
Devonian ([[Earth:Lochkovian|Lochkovian]]–[[Earth:Pragian|Pragian]])
|
Nogueras Formation
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
An early [[Biology:Polysporangiophyte|polysporangiophyte]]. Genus includes new species ''T. diezii''
|
|-
|
''Triploporella ? edgelli''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Sibelle Maksoud |author2=Bruno Granier |author3=Dany Azar |year=2017 |title=''Triploporella ? edgelli'' n. sp., a new Dasycladalean alga from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon |journal=Island Arc |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=e12189 |doi=10.1111/iar.12189 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Maksoud, Granier & Azar
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] (latest [[Earth:Barremian|Barremian]]–earliest [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Lebanon}}
|
A [[Biology:Green algae|green alga]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Dasycladales|Dasycladales]].
|
|-
|
''Volkhoviella''<ref>{{cite book |author=Serge V. Naugolnykh |year=2017 |chapter=Colonization of drylands: Producents of the first terrestrial ecosystems |title=Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Scientific reports of professors of RAS, 2017 |pages=3–25 |isbn=978-5-906906-10-6 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322917381 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Naugolnykh
|
Middle [[Earth:Ordovician|Ordovician]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A putative land plant, possibly a member of Rhyniales. Genus includes new species ''V. primitiva''.
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|-
|
''Wiartonella''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Steven T. LoDuca |author2=Denis K. Tetreault |year=2017 |title=Ontogeny and reproductive functional morphology of the macroalga ''Wiartonella nodifera'' n. gen. n. sp. (Dasycladales, Chlorophyta) from the Silurian Eramosa Lagerstätte of Ontario, Canada |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.144 |bibcode=2017JPal...91....1L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
LoDuca & Tetreault
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Silurian
|
Eramosa Lagerstätte
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Ontario}})
|
An [[Biology:Algae|alga]] belonging to the group [[Biology:Dasycladales|Dasycladales]]. Genus includes new species ''W. nodifera''.
|
|-
|
''Xinicaulis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hong-He Xu |author2=Christopher M. Berry |author3=William E. Stein |author4=Yi Wang |author5=Peng Tang |author6=Qiang Fu |year=2017 |title=Unique growth strategy in the Earth's first trees revealed in silicified fossil trunks from China |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=45 |pages=12009–12014 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1708241114 |pmid=29078324 |pmc=5692553 |bibcode=2017PNAS..11412009X |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Xu ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] ([[Earth:Frasnian|Frasnian]])
|
Zhumulate Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cladoxylopsida|Cladoxylopsida]]. Genus includes new species ''X. lignescens''.
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|-
|
''Yuhania''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhong-Jian Liu |author2=Xin Wang |year=2017 |title=''Yuhania'': a unique angiosperm from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=431–441 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1178740 |pmid=28392623 |pmc=5359780 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Wang
|
Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
|
Jiulongshan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
Originally described as an early angiosperm; Herendeen ''et al.'' (2017) considered the holotype specimen to be inadequately preserved for critical assessment of the relationships of the taxon.<ref name=NaturePlants2017>{{Cite journal|author1=Patrick S. Herendeen |author2=Else Marie Friis |author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |author4=Peter R. Crane |year=2017 |title=Palaeobotanical redux: revisiting the age of the angiosperms |journal=Nature Plants |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=Article number 17015 |doi=10.1038/nplants.2017.15 |pmid=28260783 |s2cid=205458714 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2274 |type=Submitted manuscript }}</ref> Genus includes new species ''Y. daohugouensis''.
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==Flowering plants==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Acer ningmingensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yunfa Chen |author2=William Oki Wong |author3=Qian Hu |author4=Yongqing Liufu |author5=Zhiming Xie |year=2017 |title=A new fossil-species of ''Acer'' (Sapindaceae) from the Ningming Basin in Guangxi, South China |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=298 |issue=2 |pages=158–164 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.298.2.5 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Chen & Wong ''in'' Chen ''et al.''
|
Oligocene
|
Ningming Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A maple.
|
|-
|
''Aceroxylon pravalense''<ref name=APR132>{{Cite journal |author1=Stănilă Iamandei |author2=Eugenia Iamandei |year=2017 |title=New trees identified in the Petrified Forest of Middle Miocene from Zarand, Apuseni Mountains, Romania |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=37–90 |url=http://www.geo-paleontologica.org/actapalrom/APR_v_13_2/Iamandei_Iamandei_Zarand.pdf |access-date=2018-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321063515/http://www.geo-paleontologica.org/actapalrom/APR_v_13_2/Iamandei_Iamandei_Zarand.pdf |archive-date=2018-03-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Iamandei & Iamandei
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Romania}}
|
A member of the subfamily [[Biology:Hippocastanoideae|Hippocastanoideae]] within the family [[Biology:Sapindaceae|Sapindaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
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''Aceroxylon zarandense''<ref name=APR132 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
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Iamandei & Iamandei
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Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Romania}}
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A member of the subfamily [[Biology:Hippocastanoideae|Hippocastanoideae]] within the family [[Biology:Sapindaceae|Sapindaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
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''Aglaia siwalica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aglaia|Aglaia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Akanioxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mariana Brea |author2=Alejandro F. Zucol |author3=M. Susana Bargo |author4=Juan Carlos Fernicola |author5=Sergio F. Vizcaíno |year=2017 |title=First Miocene record of Akaniaceae in Patagonia (Argentina): a fossil wood from the early Miocene Santa Cruz formation and its palaeobiogeographical implications |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=183 |issue=3 |pages=334–347 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/bow014 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/65078 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Brea ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
|
Santa Cruz Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Akaniaceae|Akaniaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''A. santacrucensis''.
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|-
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''Albizia ningmingensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fu-Jun Ma |author2=Song Liu |author3=Bai-Nian Sun |author4=De-Fei Yan |author5=Jun-Ling Dong |author6=Feng-Tai Zhang |author7=Qiu-Jun Wang |year=2017 |title=Legume fruits from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Guangxi, China, and their biogeographical and palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=244 |pages=192–202 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.05.009 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.244..192M }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ma ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Ningming Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Albizia|Albizia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Aleurites australis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrew C. Rozefelds |author2=Mary E. Dettmann |author3=H. Trevor Clifford |author4=Merrick Ekins |year=2017 |title=An Australian origin for the candle nut (''Aleurites'', Crotonoideae, Euphorbiaceae) and the fossil record of the Euphorbiaceae and related families in Australia and New Zealand |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=241 |pages=39–48 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.01.006 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.241...39R |url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:504314/UQ504314_OA.pdf |type=Submitted manuscript }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rozefelds ''et al.''
|
Cenozoic
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aleurites|Aleurites]]''.
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|-
|
''Allopanax''<ref name=Allopanax>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=''Allopanax'' and ''Boreopanax'', New Names of Fossil Araliales |journal=Annales Botanici Fennici |volume=54 |issue=4–6 |pages=263–266 |doi=10.5735/085.054.0608 |s2cid=90295525 }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Green River Formation|Green River Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}
|
A member of Araliales; a replacement name for ''Araliophyllum'' MacGinitie (1969).
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|-
|
''Anacardium incahausi''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Anacardium|Anacardium]]''.
|
|-
|
''Andiroxylon aegyptiacum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Wagieh E. El-Saadawi |author2=Nermeen A. Ziada |author3=Marwa W. El-Faramawi |author4=Marwah M. Kamal El-Din |author5=Mohamed H.A. Loutfy |year=2017 |title=The Cairo Petrified Forest revisited |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=238 |pages=34–42 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.12.001 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.238...34E }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
El-Saadawi ''et al.''
|
Oligocene
|
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]].
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|-
|
''Andiroxylon barghoornii''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017">{{Cite journal|last1=Jud|first1=Nathan A.|last2=Dunham|first2=Jeremy I|date=2017-06-09|title=Fossil woods from the Cenozoic of Panama (Azuero Peninsula) reveal an ancient neotropical rainforest|url=https://brill.com/abstract/journals/iawa/38/3/article-p366_4.xml|journal=IAWA Journal|language=en|volume=38|issue=3|pages=366–S2|doi=10.1163/22941932-20170176|issn=2294-1932|doi-access=free}}</ref>
|
sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]] wood morphospecies. 
|
|-
|
''Annona miocenica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahesh Prasad |author2=Alok |author3=Ankit Kumar Kannaujia |author4=Sanjeev Kumar |author5=Sanjai Kumar Singh |year=2017 |title=Middle Miocene flora from Siwalik foreland basin of Uttarakhand, India and its phytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications |journal=The Palaeobotanist |volume=66 |issue=(1-2) |pages=223–312 |doi=10.54991/jop.2017.288 |s2cid=252301800 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Annona|Annona]]''.
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|-
|
''Aralia asiatica''<ref name=PhytotaxaAralia>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=New names in ''Aralia'' (Araliaceae), living and fossil |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=297 |issue=1 |pages=62–70 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.297.1.6 }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tomsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]]''; a replacement name for ''Aralia rugosa'' Dorofeev.
|
|-
|
''Aralia borealis''<ref name=PhytotaxaAralia />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tomsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]]''; a replacement name for ''Aralia tertiaria'' Dorofeev.
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|-
|
''Aralia wetteravica''<ref name=Allopanax />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]]''; a replacement name for ''Aralia dubia'' (Ettingshausen, 1868).
|
|-
|
''Aralia mammuthica''<ref name=PhytotaxaAralia />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Sakha Republic}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]]''; a replacement name for ''Aralia dubia'' Nikitin (1976).
|
|-
|
''Aralia tobolica''<ref name=PhytotaxaAralia />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Omsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]]''; a replacement name for ''Aralia lucida'' Dorofeev (1963).
|
|-
|
''Arceuthobium conwentzii''<ref name=AJB1045>{{Cite journal|author1=Eva-Maria Sadowski |author2=Leyla J. Seyfullah |author3=Carol A. Wilson |author4=Clyde L. Calvin |author5=Alexander R. Schmidt |year=2017 |title=Diverse early dwarf mistletoes (''Arceuthobium''), ecological keystones of the Eocene Baltic amber biota |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=5 |pages=694–718 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1600390 |pmid=28533204 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sadowski ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Baltic amber|Baltic amber]]
|
Europe ([[Place:Baltic Sea|Baltic Sea]] coast)
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Arceuthobium|Arceuthobium]]''.
|
|-
|
''Arceuthobium groehnii''<ref name=AJB1045 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sadowski ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Baltic amber|Baltic amber]]
|
Europe ([[Place:Baltic Sea|Baltic Sea]] coast)
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Arceuthobium|Arceuthobium]]''.
|
|-
|
''Arceuthobium obovatum''<ref name=AJB1045 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sadowski ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Baltic amber|Baltic amber]]
|
Europe ([[Place:Baltic Sea|Baltic Sea]] coast)
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Arceuthobium|Arceuthobium]]''.
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|-
|
''Archaestella''<ref name=Archaestella>{{Cite journal|author1=Masamichi Takahashi |author2=Patrick S. Herendeen |author3=Xianghui Xiao |year=2017 |title=Two early eudicot fossil flowers from the Kamikitaba assemblage (Coniacian, Late Cretaceous) in northeastern Japan |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=130 |issue=5 |pages=809–826 |doi=10.1007/s10265-017-0945-1 |pmid=28497291 |osti=1417890 |s2cid=24874173 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Masamichi Takahashi |author2=Patrick S. Herendeen |author3=Xianghui Xiao |year=2017 |title=Erratum to: Two early eudicot fossil flowers from the Kamikitaba assemblage (Coniacian, Late Cretaceous) in northeastern Japan |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=130 |issue=5 |pages=827 |doi=10.1007/s10265-017-0957-x |pmid=28593530 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Takahashi, Herendeen & Xiao
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (early [[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
[[Earth:Futaba Group|Futaba Group]]
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
Possibly a relative of [[Biology:Trochodendraceae|Trochodendraceae]]. Genus includes new species ''A. verticillata''.
|
|-
|
''Atalantia siwalica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Atalantia|Atalantia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Avicennia sexiensis''<ref name=PiedraChamana>{{Cite journal|author1=D.W. Woodcock |author2=H.W. Meyer |author3=Y. Prado |year=2017 |title=The Piedra Chamana fossil woods (Eocene, Peru) |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=313–365 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170175 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Avicennia|Avicennia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Baccaurea miocenica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Baccaurea|Baccaurea]]''.
|
|-
|
''Balanites siwalica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Balanites|Balanites]]''.
|
|-
|
''Bastardiopsis palaeodensiflora''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=R. Soledad Ramos |author2=Mariana Brea |author3=Daniela Kröhling |year=2017 |title=Malvaceous wood from the Late Pleistocene El Palmar Formation of northeastern Argentina |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=246 |pages=232–241 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.07.004 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.246..232R }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ramos, Brea & Kröhling
|
Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
El Palmar Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Bastardiopsis|Bastardiopsis]]''.
|
|-
|
''Bauhinia purniyagiriensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Bauhinia|Bauhinia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Beilschmiedia oleifera''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
|
sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A species of [[Biology:Lauraceae|Lauraceae]]
|
|-
|
''Betula erkovetskiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=N. I. Blokhina |author2=O. V. Bondarenko |year=2017 |title=Fossil wood of ''Betula erkovetskiensis'' sp. nov. (Betulaceae) from the Miocene of the Erkovetskii Brown Coal Field, Amur Region, Russia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=441–452 |doi=10.1134/S0031030117040049 |s2cid=134332945 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=29762025 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Blokhina & Bondarenko
|
Miocene
|
Sazanka Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Amur Oblast}})
|
A [[Biology:Birch|birch]].
|
|-
|
''Boreopanax''<ref name=Allopanax />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of Araliales; a new genus for ''"Araliaecarpum" kolymense'' Samylina (1960).
|
|-
|
''Bosquesoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Diana K. Pérez-Lara |author2=Carlos Castañeda-Posadas |author3=Emilio Estrada-Ruiz |year=2017 |title=A new genus of Anacardiaceae fossil wood from El Bosque Formation (Eocene), Chiapas, Mexico |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=543–552 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170179 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pérez-Lara, Castañeda-Posadas & Estrada-Ruiz
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
El Bosque Formation
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Anacardiaceae|Anacardiaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''B. chiapiasense''.
|
|-
|
''Brassaiopsis kolakovskyana''<ref name=PhytotaxaAralia />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Pliocene
|
|
[[Place:Abkhazia|Abkhazia]]
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Brassaiopsis|Brassaiopsis]]''; a replacement name for ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]] angustiloba'' Kolakovsky.
|
|-
|
''Bridelia hanumanchattiensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Bridelia|Bridelia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Burseroxylon panamense''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
|
sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A [[Biology:Sapindales|Sapindales]] wood morphospecies 
|
|-
|
''Caldesia europaea''<ref name=PAB295>{{Cite journal|author1=Lilla Hably |author2=Barbara Meller |year=2017 |title=Sarmatian wetlands at the NW margin of the Pannonian Basin system (Gratkorn, Styrian Basin, Austria, late middle Miocene). Part 1. The leaf record |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung B |volume=295 |issue=4–6 |pages=135–165 |doi=10.1127/palb/295/2017/135 |bibcode=2017PalAB.295..135H }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Hably ''in'' Hably & Meller
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Austria}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Caldesia|Caldesia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Calophyllum siwalikum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahasin A. Khan |author2=Robert A. Spicer |author3=Teresa E. V. Spicer |author4=Subir Bera |year=2017 |title=Evidence for diversification of ''Calophyllum'' L. (Calophyllaceae) in the Neogene Siwalik forests of eastern Himalaya |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=303 |issue=3 |pages=371–386 |doi=10.1007/s00606-016-1376-5 |s2cid=43459109 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Khan, Spicer & Bera ''in'' Khan ''et al.''
|
Neogene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Calophyllum|Calophyllum]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cariniana valverdei''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cariniana|Cariniana]]''.
|
|-
|
''Carpolites drupifera''<ref name=Kownasia>{{Cite journal|author=Rafał Kowalski |year=2017 |title=Miocene carpological floras of the Konin region (Central Poland) |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=39–100 |doi=10.1515/acpa-2017-0007 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A fossil fruit of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
|
|-
|
''Carpolites lubstovensis''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A fossil fruit of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
|
|-
|
''Cascolaurus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=George Poinar Jr. |year=2017 |title=A mid-Cretaceous Lauraceae flower, ''Cascolaurus burmitis'' gen. et sp. nov., in Myanmar amber |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=71 |pages=96–101 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.015 |bibcode=2017CrRes..71...96P }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar
|
Late Cretaceous ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Lauraceae|Lauraceae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. burmitis''.
|
|-
|
''Cathiaria japonica''<ref name=Archaestella />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Takahashi, Herendeen & Xiao
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (early [[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
[[Earth:Futaba Group|Futaba Group]]
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
Possibly a member of [[Biology:Buxaceae|Buxaceae]] ''sensu lato''.
|
|-
|
''Ceratopetalum edgardoromeroi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=María A. Gandolfo |author2=Elizabeth J. Hermsen |year=2017 |title=''Ceratopetalum'' (Cunoniaceae) fruits of Australasian affinity from the early Eocene Laguna del Hunco flora, Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Annals of Botany |volume=119 |issue=4 |pages=507–516 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcw283 |pmid=28110267 |pmc=5571373 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gandolfo & Hermsen
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
| [[Earth:Laguna del Hunco Formation|Laguna del Hunco Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Ceratopetalum|Ceratopetalum]]''.
|
|-
|
''Chadronoxylon sakhalinensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=M.A. Afonin |year=2017 |title=First record of ''Chadronoxylon'' fossil wood (Angiospermae, Dicotyledones) from Russia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=51 |issue=5 |pages=556–561 |doi=10.1134/S0031030117050021 |s2cid=134375608 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=29963115 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Afonin
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Turonian|Turonian]]–[[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Sakhalin Oblast}})
|
A [[Biology:Dicotyledon|dicotyledon]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Chaneya ningmingensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yongqing Liufu |author2=Yunfa Chen |author3=Hongshan Wang |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Chaneya'' from the Oligocene Ningming Formation, Guangxi, South China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=244 |pages=148–152 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.05.005 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.244..148L }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liufu, Chen & Wang
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Ningming Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A fossil fruit.
|
|-
|
''Choerospondias nanningensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qiong-Yao Fu |author2=Long Li |author3=Jian-Hua Jin |author4=Xiao-Yan Liu |author5=Cheng Quan |year=2017 |title=Mummified fruits of ''Choerospondias nanningensis'' sp. nov. (Anacardiaceae) from the Upper Oligocene of a low latitude site in East Asia |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=55 |issue=5 |pages=477–483 |doi=10.1111/jse.12255 |s2cid=89981594 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Fu ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Yongning Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Choerospondias|Choerospondias]]''.
|
|-
|
''Chrysophyllum bhairauvensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Chrysophyllum|Chrysophyllum]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cinnamomum camphoricarpum''<ref name=Phytotaxa3263>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=New names in ''Cinnamomoides'', ''Cinnamomum'' and ''Neolitsea'' (Lauraceae), and ''Pterospermum'' (Malvaceae), fossil and living |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=326 |issue=3 |pages=189–201 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.326.3.3 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cinnamomum|Cinnamomum]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cinnamomum camphoricum''<ref name=Phytotaxa3263 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Indonesia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cinnamomum|Cinnamomum]]''; a replacement name for ''[[Biology:Cinnamomum|Cinnamomum]] gracile'' (Geyler, 1877).
|
|-
|
''Cinnamomum costulatum''<ref name=Phytotaxa3263 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cinnamomum|Cinnamomum]]'' described on the basis of fossil fruits; a replacement name for ''Cinnamomum apiculatum'' Saporta (1889).
|
|-
|
''Cinnamomum fajumicum''<ref name=Phytotaxa3263 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Bartonian|Bartonian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cinnamomum|Cinnamomum]]''; a replacement name for ''Cinnamomum africanum'' Engelhardt (1907).
|
|-
|
''Cladium zhenyuanensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao-Qing Liang |author2=Ping Lu |author3=Achyut Tiwari |author4=Tao Su |author5=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2017 |title=New fossil record of ''Cladium'' (Cyperaceae) from the Middle Miocene of Zhenyuan, SW China, and the palaeobiogeographical history of the genus |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=237 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.10.006 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.237....1L }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liang & Zhou ''in'' Liang ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cladium|Cladium]]''.
|
|-
|
''Clausena miocenica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Clausena|Clausena]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cnestis purniyagiriensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cnestis|Cnestis]]''.
|
|-
|
''Combretum purniyagiriense''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Combretum|Combretum]]''.
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|-
|
''Connaroxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Pieter Baas |author2=Steven R. Manchester |author3=Elisabeth A. Wheeler |author4=Rashmi Srivastava |year=2017 |title=Fossil wood with dimorphic fibers from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India – the oldest fossil Connaraceae? |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=124–133 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170162 |s2cid=91159009 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Baas ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])-earliest [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
[[Earth:Deccan Traps|Deccan]] [[Earth:Intertrappean Beds|Intertrappean Beds]]
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A probable member of [[Biology:Connaraceae|Connaraceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''C. dimorphum''. Originally named in 2017 in a publication which did not fulfill all requirements of the International Code of Nomenclature of Algae, Fungi and Plants; subsequently validated in 2022.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Pieter Baas |author2=Steven R. Manchester |author3=Elisabeth A. Wheeler |author4=Rashmi Srivastava |year=2022 |title=Validation of the names linked to the oldest fossil Connaraceae wood (''Connaroxylon'', ''Connaroxylon dimorphum'') |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=558 |issue=2 |pages=249–250 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.558.2.9 |s2cid=251607763 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
|-
|
''Cordia asenjoi''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cordia|Cordia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cordia eocenica''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cordia|Cordia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cordia florifera''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cordia|Cordia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cretacaeiporites aegyptiaca''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mohamed I.A. Ibrahim |author2=Mohamed K. Zobaa |author3=Zainab M. El–Noamani |author4=Sameh S. Tahoun |year=2017 |title=A review of the angiosperm pollen genus ''Cretacaeiporites'' Herngreen, with one new species from the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt |journal=Palynology |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=101–116 |doi=10.1080/01916122.2015.1093561 |bibcode=2017Paly...41..101I |s2cid=86199144 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ibrahim ''et al.''
|
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
|
[[Earth:Bahariya Formation|Bahariya Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
|
|-
|
''Cyclocarya simipaliurus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jing-Yu Wu |author2=Peter Wilf |author3=Su-Ting Ding |author4=Peng-Cheng An |author5=Jing Dai |year=2017 |title=Late Miocene ''Cyclocarya'' (Juglandaceae) from Southwest China and Its Biogeographic Implications |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=7 |pages=580–591 |doi=10.1086/692765 |s2cid=91140118 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Nanlin Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cyclocarya|Cyclocarya]]''.
|
|-
|
''Cynometra grandis''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cynometra|Cynometra]]''.
|
|-
|
''Dalbergia santa-rosa''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Dalbergia|Dalbergia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Dalbergia tanakpurensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''Dalbergia''.
|
|-
|
''Dendrokingstonia palaeonervosa''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Dendrokingstonia|Dendrokingstonia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Derris mioscandens''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Derris|Derris]]''.
|
|-
|
''Dicotylophyllum subpeltatum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zlatko Kvaček |author2=Miroslav Bubík |year=2017 |title=A new Oligocene leaf assemblage from the Ghalandar area (NW Iran) and its contribution to understanding of floristic evolution in the eastern Paratethys |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=705–715 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1624 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček & Bubík
|
Oligocene
|
|
{{Flag|Iran}}
|
A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement described on the basis of leaf impressions.
|
|-
|
''Diospyros communis''<ref name=Phytotaxa3292>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=''Actinodaphne notabilis'', ''Berberis yingii'', ''Diospyros communis'', ''Rosa miopannonica'', and ''Symplocos ecuadorica'', new replacement names for the homonyms of fossils |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=329 |issue=2 |pages=180–184 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.329.2.9 }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Tertiary
|
|
{{Flag|Indonesia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Diospyros|Diospyros]]''; a replacement name for ''Diospyros dubia'' Göppert (1854).
|
|-
|
''Dipterocarpus miogracilis''<ref name=PrasaetalJPSI2017>{{cite journal |author1=M. Prasad |author2=Alok |author3=D. K. Chauhan |author4=S. K. Singh |author5=S. M. Pandey |year=2017 |title=Middle Miocene (Siwalik) plant megafossils from the Sub-Himalayan Zone of Uttarakhand and their palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=97–120 |url=http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/2018/Print%20pdf%20of%20PSI%20Journal%2062(1)/8.%20M.%20Prasad.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
Siwalik Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Dipterocarpus|Dipterocarpus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Discoflorus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=George O. Poinar, Jr. |year=2017 |title=Ancient Termite Pollinator of Milkweed Flowers in Dominican Amber |journal=American Entomologist |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=52–56 |doi=10.1093/ae/tmx011 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar
|
Eocene-Miocene
|
[[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]]
|
{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Apocynaceae|Apocynaceae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Asclepiadoideae|Asclepiadoideae]]. Genus includes new species ''D. neotropicus''.
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|-
|
''Drimycarpus siwalicus''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Drimycarpus|Drimycarpus]]''.
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|-
|
''Duguetiaxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Emilio Alberto Amaral Soares |author2=Adriana Cabral Kloster |author3=Silvia Cristina Gnaedinger |author4=Silvio Roberto Riker |author5=Felipe José da Cruz Lima |author6=Marcelo Batista Motta |year=2017 |title=First record of Annonaceae wood for the Neogene of South America, Amazon Basin, Brazil |journal=Brazilian Journal of Geology |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=95–108 |doi=10.1590/2317-4889201720160085 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/26346 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Soares ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
Novo Remanso Formation
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Annonaceae|Annonaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''D. amazonicum''.
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|-
|
''Enkianthus maii''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Enkianthus|Enkianthus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Euphorbioxylon crotonoides''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
|
sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A [[Biology:Euphorbiaceae|Euphorbiaceae]] wood morphospecies
|
|-
|
''Exbucklandia acutifolia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jian Huang |author2=Gong-Le Shi |author3=Tao Su |author4=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2017 |title=Miocene ''Exbucklandia'' (Hamamelidaceae) from Yunnan, China: Revelation of its biogeography and palaeoecology |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=244 |pages=96–106 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.10.004 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang & Zhou ''in'' Huang ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Exbucklandia|Exbucklandia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Fallopia conwentzii''<ref name=Phytotaxa308>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=New names in ''Fallopia'', ''Persicarioipollis'', ''Polygonum'' and ''Reynoutria'' (Polygonaceae), living and fossil |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=308 |issue=1 |pages=66–79 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.308.1.5 }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Kaliningrad Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Fallopia|Fallopia]]''; a replacement name for ''Polygonum convolvuloides'' Conwentz.
|
|-
|
''Fallopia palaeodonica''<ref name=Phytotaxa308 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Rostov Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Fallopia|Fallopia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Ficus koek-noormaniae''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
|
sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A wood morphospecies ''[[Biology:Ficus|Ficus]]''
|
|-
|
''Foveomonocolpites ravnii''<ref name=RPPMakhteshQatan>{{Cite journal|author=Eckart Schrank |year=2017 |title=Palynology of the Albian Makhtesh Qatan site, northern Negev (Israel), with descriptions of two new pollen species |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=246 |pages=185–215 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.06.007 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.246..185S }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Schrank
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Israel}}
|
A flowering plant described on the basis of fossil pollen.
|
|-
|
''Frangula priabonica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=New names of fossil ''Atadinus'', ''Endotropis'' and ''Frangula'' (Rhamnaceae) |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=321 |issue=2 |pages=194–200 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.321.2.4 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
|
[[Earth:Headon Hill Formation|Headon Hill Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Frangula|Frangula]]''.
|
|-
|
''Gomphandra palaeocoriacea''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Gomphandra|Gomphandra]]''.
|
|-
|
''Gossweilerodendroxylon''<ref name=Gossweilerodendroxylon>{{Cite journal|author1=R. Soledad Ramos |author2=Mariana Brea |author3=Daniela M. Kröhling |year=2017 |title=Fossil woods of Detarioideae subfamily (Fabaceae) from El Palmar Formation (Late Pleistocene) in South America |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=79 |pages=202–214 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2017.08.006 |bibcode=2017JSAES..79..202R }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ramos, Brea & Kröhling
|
Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
El Palmar Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Detarioideae|Detarioideae]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''G. palmariensis''.
|
|-
|
''Grewia tanakpurensis''<ref name=PrasaetalJPSI2017 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
Siwalik Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Grewia|Grewia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Humboldtia miocenica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Humboldtia|Humboldtia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Hura chancayensis''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Hura (plant)|Hura]]''.
|
|-
|
''Hydrochariphyllum kvacekii''<ref name=PAB295 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Hably ''in'' Hably & Meller
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Austria}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Hydrocharitaceae|Hydrocharitaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Icacinanthium''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Cédric Del Rio |author2=Thomas Haevermans |author3=Dario De Franceschi |year=2017 |title=First record of an Icacinaceae Miers fossil flower from Le Quesnoy (Ypresian, France) amber |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 11099 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-11536-y |pmid=28894196 |pmc=5593952 |bibcode=2017NatSR...711099D }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Del Rio & De Franceschi ''in'' Del Rio, Haevermans & De Franceschi
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Icacinaceae|Icacinaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''I. tainiaphorum''.
|
|-
|
''Ilex miodipyrena''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas Denk |author2=Tuncay H. Güner |author3=Zlatko Kvaček |author4=Johannes M. Bouchal |year=2017 |title=The early Miocene flora of Güvem (Central Anatolia, Turkey): a window into early Neogene vegetation and environments in the Eastern Mediterranean |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=237–338 |doi=10.1515/acpa-2017-0011 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Denk ''et al.''
|
Miocene (early [[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
|
Güvem Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A [[Biology:Holly|holly]].
|
|-
|
''Ixora purniyagiriensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Ixora|Ixora]]''.
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella conferta''<ref name=Jenkinsella>{{cite journal |author1=L. B. Golovneva |author2=P. I. Alekseev |year=2017 |title=Taxonomy and morphological diversity of infructescences ''Jenkinsella'' co-occurred with ''Trochodendroides'' leaves in the Cretaceous and Paleogene |journal=Paleobotanika |volume=8 |pages=92–121 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322887825 |doi=10.31111/palaeobotany/2017.8.92 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]]-[[Earth:Santonian|Santonian]])
|
Sym Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella filatovii''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Comb. nov
|
Valid
|
(Samylina) Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]<br/>[[Earth:Albian|Albian]]
|
Omsukchan Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.<br>First named ''Kenella filatovii'' (1976)<br/>Moved from ''Nyssidium filatovii'' (2010)
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella gardnerii''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Comb. nov
|
Valid
|
(Chandler) Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Wuyun Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.<br>Moved from ''Carpolithes gardnerii'' (1961)<br/>includes some ''Nyssidium arcticum'' of Crane (1984) 
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella jiayinensis''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Comb. nov
|
Valid
|
(Feng ''et al.'') Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Wuyun Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.<br>Moved from ''Nyssidium jiayinense'' (2000)
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella knowltonii''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}})
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.<br/> A replacement name for ''Berrya racemosa'' (1930)
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella krassilovii''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Darmakan Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Amur Oblast}})
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella makulbekovii''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Naran-Bulak Formation
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.
|
|-
|
''Jenkinsella vilyuensis''<ref name=Jenkinsella />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Golovneva & Alekseev
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Turonian|Turonian]]-[[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
Timmerdyakh Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] morphospecies.
|
|-
|
''Kenilanthus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Else Marie Friis |author2=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |author3=Peter R. Crane |year=2017 |title=''Kenilanthus'', a new eudicot flower with tricolpate pollen from the Early Cretaceous (early-middle Albian) of eastern North America |journal=Grana |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=161–173 |doi=10.1080/00173134.2016.1158863 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis, Pedersen & Crane
|
Early Cretaceous (early-middle [[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
Patapsco Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Maryland}})
|
A flowering plant belonging to an early-diverging [[Biology:Eudicots|eudicot]] lineage. The type species is ''Kenilanthus marylandensis''.
|
|-
|
''Kalmiocarpus''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Ericaceae|Ericaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''K. dorofeevi''.
|
|-
|
''Kownasia''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cyperaceae|Cyperaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''K. lubstovensis''.
|
|-
|
''Kunduriphyllum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=T. M. Kodrul |author2=N. P. Maslova |year=2017 |title='''Kunduriphyllum kundurense'' gen. et comb. nov. (Platanaceae) and associated reproductive structures from the Campanian of the Amur Region, Russia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=51 |issue=14 |pages=1584–1596 |doi=10.1134/S0031030117140027 |s2cid=91080096 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Kodrul & Maslova
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
|
Kundur Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Amur Oblast}})
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A member of the family [[Biology:Platanaceae|Platanaceae]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Celastrinites|Celastrinites]]" kundurensis'' Golovneva, Sun & Bugdaeva (2008).
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|-
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''Lagerstroemia prakashii''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Lagerstroemia|Lagerstroemia]]''.
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|-
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''Lagerstroemioxylon thanobolensis''<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=N. Soomro |author2=N. S. Jillani |author3=S. T. Quereshi |author4=J. U. Mangi |author5=B. A. Arain |author6=M. T. Rajput |year=2017 |title=Discovery of Miocene wood from Manchar Formation, ''Lagerstroemioxylon thanobolensis'' sp. nov. of family Lythraceae, Thanobola khan District Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan |journal=Sindh University Research Journal: Science Series |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=557–562 |url=http://sujo.usindh.edu.pk/index.php/SURJ/article/view/3628 |access-date=2017-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052528/http://sujo.usindh.edu.pk/index.php/SURJ/article/view/3628 |archive-date=2017-09-27 |url-status=dead |doi=10.26692/surj/2017.09.16 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Soomro ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
Manchar Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Lythraceae|Lythraceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Laurinoxylon elongatum''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
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sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A [[Biology:Lauraceae|Lauraceae]] wwod morphospecies
|
|-
|
''Lecythioxylon enviraense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Adriana Kloster |author2=Silvia Gnaedinger |author3=Karen Adami-Rodrigues |year=2017 |title=Nuevos registros de maderas del Mioceno de la Formación Solimões, Cuenca de Acre, Amazonia, Brasil |journal=Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=383–404 |doi=10.4072/rbp.2017.3.09 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kloster, Gnaedinger & Adami-Rodrigues
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Formation
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Lecythidaceae|Lecythidaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Leguminocarpon siwalicum''<ref name=PrasaetalJPSI2017 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
Siwalik Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Lepisanthes miocenica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Lepisanthes|Lepisanthes]]''.
|
|-
|
''Lepisanthes tanakpurensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''Lepisanthes''.
|
|-
|
''Leucotrys''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Ericaceae|Ericaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''L. europea''.
|
|-
|
''Lyonia polonica''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Lyonia (plant)|Lyonia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Macaranga zhangpuensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zixi Wang |author2=Bainian Sun |author3=Peihong Jin |author4=Peng Deng |author5=Jingwei Chen |author6=Fankai Sun |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Macaranga'' from the middle Miocene of Fujian, China and its significance |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=6 |pages=743–754 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1236374 |s2cid=89348105 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang & Sun ''in'' Wang ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
Fotan Group
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Macaranga|Macaranga]]''.
|
|-
|
''Machilus miovillosus''<ref name=PrasaetalJPSI2017 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
Siwalik Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Machilus|Machilus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Mahonia ningmingensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qian Hu |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Yun-Fa Chen |author4=Steven R. Manchester |year=2017 |title=''Mahonia'' fossils from the Oligocene of South China: Taxonomic and biogeographic implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=691–698 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2017.03.004 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Hu & Chen ''in'' Hu ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Ningming Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Mahonia|Mahonia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Maiella''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Rafał Kowalski |author2=Jaime Fagúndez |year=2017 |title=''Maiella miocaenica'' gen. et sp. nov., a New Heather Genus (Ericeae, Ericaceae) from the Central European Miocene |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=5 |pages=411–420 |doi=10.1086/691461 |s2cid=90669844 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski & Fagúndez
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Ericaceae|Ericaceae]] belonging to the tribe Ericeae. Genus includes new species ''M. miocaenica''.
|
|-
|
''Mallotus prejaponicus''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Mallotus (plant)|Mallotus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Mammea paramericana''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chris W. Nelson |author2=Nathan A. Jud |year=2017 |title=Biogeographic Implications of ''Mammea paramericana'' sp. nov. from the Lower Miocene of Panama and the Evolution of Calophyllaceae |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=3 |pages=241–257 |doi=10.1086/689618 |s2cid=89714823 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Nelson & Jud
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Mammea|Mammea]]''.
|
|-
|
''Mastixia asiatica''<ref name=RPPMastixia>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahasin Ali Khan |author2=Meghma Bera |author3=Robert A. Spicer |author4=Teresa E.V. Spicer |author5=Subir Bera |year=2017 |title=First occurrence of mastixioid (Cornaceae) fossil in India and its biogeographic implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=247 |pages=83–96 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.08.006 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.247...83K |url=http://oro.open.ac.uk/53844/1/53844.pdf |type=Submitted manuscript }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Khan, Bera & Bera ''in'' Khan ''et al.''
|
Miocene–Pleistocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Mastixia|Mastixia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Mastixia siwalika''<ref name=RPPMastixia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Khan, Bera & Bera ''in'' Khan ''et al.''
|
Miocene–Pleistocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Mastixia|Mastixia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Medinilla siwalica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Medinilla|Medinilla]]''.
|
|-
|
''Meiogyne purniyagiriensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Meiogyne|Meiogyne]]''.
|
|-
|
''Metrosideros dawsonii''<ref name=AJBMetrosideros>{{Cite journal|author1=Myall Tarran |author2=Peter G. Wilson |author3=Michael K. Macphail |author4=Greg J. Jordan |author5=Robert S. Hill |year=2017 |title=Two fossil species of ''Metrosideros'' (Myrtaceae) from the Oligo-Miocene Golden Fleece locality in Tasmania, Australia |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=6 |pages=891–904 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1700095 |pmid=28634257 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tarran ''et al.''
|
Oligo-Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Metrosideros|Metrosideros]]''.
|
|-
|
''Metrosideros wrightii''<ref name=AJBMetrosideros />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tarran ''et al.''
|
Oligo-Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Metrosideros|Metrosideros]]''.
|
|-
|
''Millettia mioinermis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Millettia|Millettia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Millettioxylon sindhiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Noor-ul-Ain Soomro |author2=Basir Ahmad Arain |author3=Tahir Rajput |author4=Syed Saliha Hassaney |year=2017 |title=A new petrified wood ''Millettioxylon sindhiensis'' sp. nov. (Fabaceae) from Thanobola Khan, Sindh, Pakistan |journal=Pakistan Journal of Botany |volume=49 |issue=SI |pages=369–374 |url=http://pakbs.org/pjbot/papers/1496529837.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Soomro ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
Manchar Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Mycophoris''<ref name=Mycophoris>{{Cite journal|author=George Poinar Jr. |year=2017 |title=Two new genera, ''Mycophoris'' gen. nov., (Orchidaceae) and ''Synaptomitus'' gen. nov. (Basidiomycota) based on a fossil seed with developing embryo and associated fungus in Dominican amber |journal=Botany |volume=95 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1139/cjb-2016-0118 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar
|
Eocene to Miocene
|
[[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]]
|
{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
|
Originally described as a member of [[Biology:Orchidaceae|Orchidaceae]],<ref name=Mycophoris /> but this interpretation was challenged by Selosse ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Marc-Andre Selosse |author2=Mark Brundrett |author3=John Dearnaley |author4=Vincent S.F.T. Merckx |author5=Finn Rasmussen |author6=Lawrence W. Zettler |author7=Hanne N. Rasmussen |year=2017 |title=Why ''Mycophoris'' is not an orchid seedling, and why ''Synaptomitus'' is not a fungal symbiont within this fossil |journal=Botany |volume=95 |issue=9 |pages=865–868 |doi=10.1139/cjb-2017-0038 }}</ref> Genus includes new species ''M. elongatus''.
|
|-
|
''Myristica siwalica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Myristica|Myristica]]''.
|
|-
|
''Notiantha''<ref name=Notiantha>{{Cite journal|author1=Nathan A. Jud |author2=Maria A. Gandolfo |author3=Ari Iglesias |author4=Peter Wilf |year=2017 |title=Flowering after disaster: Early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from Patagonia |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=e0176164 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0176164 |pmid=28489895 |pmc=5425202 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1276164J |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jud ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] (early [[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
Lower [[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Rhamnaceae|Rhamnaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''N. grandensis''.
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|-
|
''Nothodichocarpum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gang Han |author2=Zhongjian Liu |author3=Xin Wang |year=2017 |title=A ''Dichocarpum''-like Angiosperm from the Early Cretaceous of China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201701003&flag=1 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.13059 |s2cid=132566336 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Han, Liu & Wang
|
Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Barremian|Barremian]]-[[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
|
[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An early flowering plant. Genus includes new species ''N. lingyuanensis''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Notonuphar|Notonuphar]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Else M. Friis |author2=Ari Iglesias |author3=Marcelo A. Reguero |author4=Thomas Mörs |year=2017 |title=''Notonuphar antarctica'', an extinct water lily (Nymphaeales) from the Eocene of Antarctica |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=303 |issue=7 |pages=969–980 |doi=10.1007/s00606-017-1422-y |url=https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/psi/islandora/object/psi%3A3442/datastream/PDF/view |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:La Meseta Formation|La Meseta Formation]]
|
[[Earth:Antarctica|Antarctica]]<br>(Seymour Island)
|
A [[Biology:Nymphaeaceae|water lily]]. Genus includes new species ''N. antarctica''.
|
|-
|
''Palaquium palaeograndis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Palaquium|Palaquium]]''.
|
|-
|
''Panascleroticoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Oris Rodriguez-Reyes |author2=Peter Gasson |author3=Carolyn Thornton |author4=Howard J. Falcon-Lang |author5=Nathan A. Jud |year=2017 |title=''Panascleroticoxylon crystallosa'' gen. et sp. nov.: a new Miocene malpighialean tree from Panama |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=437–455 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170178 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rodriguez-Reyes ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]] to [[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
|
[[Earth:Alajuela Formation|Alajuela Formation]]<br>
[[Earth:Cucaracha Formation|Cucaracha Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Malpighiales|Malpighiales]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''P. crystallosa''.
|
|-
|
''Paracomptonia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=On the nomenclature of fossil ''Aspleniopteris'', ''Carpinicarpus'', ''Comptonia'', ''Comptoniphyllum'' and ''Dryandrophyllum'' (Myricaceae) |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=223–232 |doi=10.1515/acpa-2017-0009 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]]) to [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Austria}}<br>
{{Flag|Azerbaijan}}<br>
{{Flag|Czech Republic}}<br>
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Myricaceae|Myricaceae]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Dryandra|Dryandra]]" cretacea'' Velenovský (1883). Genus also includes ''"Dryandra" yakovlevii'' Palibin (1930) and ''"Aspleniopteris" schrankii'' Sternberg (1825).
|
|-
|
''Paraoxystigma''<ref name=Gossweilerodendroxylon />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ramos, Brea & Kröhling
|
Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
El Palmar Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Detarioideae|Detarioideae]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''P. concordiensis''.
|
|-
|
''Paraphyllanthoxylon botarii''<ref name=APR132 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Iamandei & Iamandei
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Romania}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Phyllanthaceae|Phyllanthaceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Paraphyllanthoxylon vancouverense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Nathan A. Jud |author2=Elisabeth A. Wheeler |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |author4=Ruth A. Stockey |year=2017 |title=Angiosperm wood from the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian) of British Columbia, Canada |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=141–161 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170164 |s2cid=91117780 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jud ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
Comox Formation
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
An angiosperm tree described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Parashorea mioplicata''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Parashorea|Parashorea]]''.
|
|-
|
''Passifloroidesperma''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Camila Martínez |year=2017 |title=Passifloraceae seeds from the late Eocene of Colombia |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=12 |pages=1857–1866 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1700224 |pmid=29212767 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Martínez
|
Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Esmeraldas Formation
|
{{Flag|Colombia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Passifloraceae|Passifloraceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. sogamosense''.
|
|-
|
''Peltophoroxylon diversiradii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Sarah E. Allen |year=2017 |title=Reconstructing the local vegetation and seasonality of the Lower Eocene Blue Rim Site of southwestern Wyoming using fossil wood |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=9 |pages=689–714 |doi=10.1086/694186 |s2cid=90196367 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Allen
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Bridger Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Caesalpinioideae|Caesalpinioideae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Persicaria omoloica''<ref name=Phytotaxa308 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Irkutsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Persicaria|Persicaria]]''.
|
|-
|
''Persoonieaephyllum blackburniae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Raymond Carpenter |author2=Myall Tarran |author3=Bob Hill |year=2017 |title=Leaf fossils of Proteaceae subfamily Persoonioideae, tribe Persoonieae: tracing the past of an important Australasian sclerophyll lineage |journal=Australian Systematic Botany |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=148–158 |url=http://www.publish.csiro.au/SB/SB16045 |doi=10.1071/SB16045 |s2cid=90062227 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Carpenter, Tarran & Hill
|
Middle [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Proteaceae|Proteaceae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Persoonioideae|Persoonioideae]].
|
|-
|
''Phyllanthocarpon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Dashrath Kapgate |author2=Steven R. Manchester |author3=Wolfgang Stuppy |year=2017 |title=Oldest fruit of Phyllanthaceae from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Singpur, Madhya Pradesh, India |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=33–38 |doi=10.1515/acpa-2017-0004 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mistri, Kapgate & Sheikh ex Kapgate & Manchester ''in'' Kapgate, Manchester & Stuppy
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
|
Dhuma Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Phyllanthaceae|Phyllanthaceae]] described on the basis of fossil fruit. Genus includes new species ''P. singpurensis''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Physalis infinemundi|Physalis infinemundi]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Peter Wilf |author2=Mónica R. Carvalho |author3=María A. Gandolfo |author4=N. Rubén Cúneo |year=2017 |title=Eocene lantern fruits from Gondwanan Patagonia and the early origins of Solanaceae |journal=Science |volume=355 |issue=6320 |pages=71–75 |doi=10.1126/science.aag2737 |pmid=28059765 |bibcode=2017Sci...355...71W |s2cid=206651318 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wilf ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Physalis|Physalis]]''.
|
|-
|
''Piranheoxylon perfectum''<ref name=APR132 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Iamandei & Iamandei
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Romania}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Picrodendraceae|Picrodendraceae]] described on the basis of fossil wood.
|
|-
|
''Platanus serrata''<ref name=PhytotaxaAralia />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Paleocene
|
[[Earth:Raton Formation|Raton Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Platanus|Platanus]]''; a replacement name for ''[[Biology:Aralia|Aralia]] serrata'' Knowlton (1917).
|
|-
|
''Polygonum palaeosibiricum''<ref name=Phytotaxa308 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Oligocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tomsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Polygonum|Polygonum]]''; a replacement name for ''Polygonum reticulatum'' Dorofeev.
|
|-
|
''Popowia siwalica''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Popowia|Popowia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Populus simonioides''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=Nomenclatural novelties and taxonomic changes for extant and fossil ''Populus'' (Salicaceae) |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=Article 46 |doi=10.1007/s12225-017-9718-1 |s2cid=23471906 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Populus|Populus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Prioria canalensis''<ref name=RPPPrioria>{{Cite journal|author1=Oris Rodríguez-Reyes |author2=Peter Gasson |author3=Howard J. Falcon-Lang |author4=Margaret Collinson |year=2017 |title=Fossil legume woods of the ''Prioria''-clade (subfamily Detarioideae) from the lower Miocene (early to mid-Burdigalian) part of the Cucaracha Formation of Panama (Central America) and their systematic and palaeoecological implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=246 |pages=44–61 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.06.005 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.246...44R |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rodríguez-Reyes ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
|
[[Earth:Cucaracha Formation|Cucaracha Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Prioria|Prioria]]''.
|
|-
|
''Prioria elbaiae''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Prioria|Prioria]]''.
|
|-
|
''Prioria hodgesii''<ref name=RPPPrioria />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rodríguez-Reyes ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
|
[[Earth:Cucaracha Formation|Cucaracha Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Prioria|Prioria]]''.
|
|-
|
''Pseudowinterapollis africanensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Friđgeir Grímsson |author2=Alexandros Xafis |author3=Frank H. Neumann |author4=Reinhard Zetter |year=2017 |title=Pollen morphology of extant Winteraceae: a study allowing SEM-based affiliation of its fossil representatives |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=339–396 |doi=10.1515/acpa-2017-0015 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Grímsson ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
Elandsfontyn Formation
|
{{Flag|South Africa}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Winteraceae|Winteraceae]] described on the basis of fossil pollen.
|
|-
|
''Pterolobium punctatopsis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lin-Bo Jia |author2=Yong-Jiang Huang |author3=Hang Sun |author4=Tao Su |author5=Jian Huang |author6=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2017 |title=First fossil of ''Pterolobium'' (Leguminosae) from the Middle Miocene Yunnan, South China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=242 |pages=21–32 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.03.002 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.242...21J }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jia ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
Maguan Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Pterolobium|Pterolobium]]''.
|
|-
|
''Pyrus wischneideri''<ref name=Peckiana2017>{{Cite journal|author=Ursula Striegler |year=2017 |title=Die obermiozäne Flora des Blättertons von Wischgrund und anderer gleichaltriger Fundstellen der Klettwitzer Hochfläche (Niederlausitz, Land Brandenburg, Deutschland) |journal=Peckiana |volume=12 |pages=1–151 |url=https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/seite_1-12.pdf |issn=1618-1735 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Striegler
|
Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A [[Biology:Pear|pear]].
|
|-
|
''Quercus wischgrundensis''<ref name=Peckiana2017 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Striegler
|
Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
An [[Biology:Oak|oak]].
|
|-
|
''Randia tanakpurensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Randia (plant)|Randia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Rhizopalmoxylon nypoides''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=P. K. Kathal |author2=Rashmi Srivastava |author3=R. C. Mehrotra |author4=P. O. Alexander |year=2017 |title=''Rhizopalmoxylon nypoides'' – a new palm root from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India |journal=Journal of Earth System Science |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=Article 35 |doi=10.1007/s12040-017-0815-1 |bibcode=2017JESS..126...35K |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kathal ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]]–[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] (late [[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]]–early [[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
[[Earth:Deccan Traps|Deccan]] [[Earth:Intertrappean Beds|Intertrappean Beds]]
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Arecaceae|Arecaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Rhododendron polonicum''<ref name=Kownasia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kowalski
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rhododendron|Rhododendron]]''.
|
|-
|
''Rosa miopannonica''<ref name=Phytotaxa3292 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Austria}}
|
A [[Biology:Rose|rose]]; a replacement name for ''Rosa styriaca'' Kovar-Eder & Krainer (1988).
|
|-
|
''Rourea blatta''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Nathan A. Jud |author2=Chris W. Nelson |year=2017 |title=A liana from the lower Miocene of Panama and the fossil record of Connaraceae |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=104 |issue=5 |pages=685–693 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1700080 |pmid=28500228 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jud & Nelson
|
Early Miocene
|
[[Earth:Cucaracha Formation|Cucaracha Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Connaraceae|Connaraceae]].
|
|-
|
''Rubus chandlerae''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=New names of fossil ''Rubus'' (Rosaceae) |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=326 |issue=4 |pages=279–283 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.326.4.8 }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Headon Hill Formation|Headon Hill Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus acutiformis'' Chandler (1925).
|
|-
|
''Rubus fotjanovae''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Sakhalin Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus alnifolius'' Fotjanova (1988).
|
|-
|
''Rubus laticarpus''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Novosibirsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus brevis'' Nikitin (2007).
|
|-
|
''Rubus mammuthicus''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Sakha Republic}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus decipiens'' Nikitin (1976).
|
|-
|
''Rubus nikitinii''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Tomsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus pygmaeus'' Nikitin (2007).
|
|-
|
''Rubus novorossicus''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Ukraine}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus aralioides'' Negru (1986).
|
|-
|
''Rubus tobolicus''<ref name=Phytotaxa3264 />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Novosibirsk Oblast}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Rubus|Rubus]]''; a replacement name for ''Rubus minor'' Nikitin (2007).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Sabalites|Sabalites geneseensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=David R. Greenwood |author2=Christopher K. West |year=2017 |title=A fossil coryphoid palm from the Paleocene of western Canada |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=239 |pages=55–65 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.12.002 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.239...55G |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Greenwood & West
|
Early Paleocene
|
[[Earth:Scollard Formation|Scollard Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Alberta}})
|
A [[Biology:Arecaceae|palm tree]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Coryphoideae|Coryphoideae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Sabalites|Sabalites guangxiensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qiu-Jun Wang |author2=Fu-Jun Ma |author3=Jun-Ling Dong |author4=Chun-Hui Liu |author5=Shuai Liu |author6=Bai-Nian Sun |year=2017 |title=New costapalmate palm leaves from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Guangxi, China, and their biogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=594–606 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1218487 |s2cid=88948956 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang & Sun ''in'' Wang ''et al.''
|
Oligocene
|
Ningming Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Arecaceae|palm tree]].
|
|-
|
''Sapindus eotrifoliatus''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Sapindus|Sapindus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Saportanthus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Else Marie Friis |author2=Peter R. Crane |author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |year=2017 |title=''Saportanthus'', an Extinct Genus of Laurales from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=8 |pages=650–672 |doi=10.1086/693108 |s2cid=90608311 |url=https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/117612927/693108.pdf }}</ref>
|
Gen. et 3 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis, Crane & Pedersen
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Barremian|Barremian]]–early [[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
Almargem Formation<br>
Figueira da Foz Formation
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Laurales|Laurales]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''S. dolichostemon'', ''S. brachystemon'' and ''S. parvus''.
|
|-
|
''Sapotaceoxylon''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
|
gen. et sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A [[Biology:Sapotaceae|Sapotaceae]] wood morphospecies,<br/> type species ''S. penningtonii''
|
|-
|
''Sarcochlamys miopulcherrima''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Sarcochlamys|Sarcochlamys]]''.
|
|-
|
''Saururus aquilae''<ref name=PeerJSaururaceae>{{Cite journal|author1=Friðgeir Grímsson |author2=Guido W. Grimm |author3=Reinhard Zetter |year=2017 |title=Tiny pollen grains: first evidence of Saururaceae from the Late Cretaceous of western North America |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3434 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3434 |pmid=28626610 |pmc=5472062 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Grímsson, Grimm & Zetter
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
|
Eagle Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Saururus|Saururus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Saururus stoobensis''<ref name=PeerJSaururaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Grímsson, Grimm & Zetter
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Austria}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Saururus|Saururus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Schima kwangsiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiang-Gang Shi |author2=Qiong-Yao Fu |author3=Jian-Hua Jin |author4=Cheng Quan |year=2017 |title=Mummified Oligocene fruits of ''Schima'' (Theaceae) and their systematic and biogeographic implications |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 4009 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-04349-6 |pmid=28638066 |pmc=5479851 |bibcode=2017NatSR...7.4009S }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Shi, Quan & Jin ''in'' Shi ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Yongning Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Schima|Schima]]''.
|
|-
|
''Securidaca precorymbosa''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Securidaca|Securidaca]]''.
|
|-
|
''Sheltercarpa''<ref name=Sheltercarpa>{{Cite journal|author1=Brian A. Atkinson |author2=Ruth A. Stockey |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2017 |title=The Early Phylogenetic Diversification of Cornales: Permineralized Cornalean Fruits from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Western North America |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=178 |issue=7 |pages=556–566 |doi=10.1086/692766 |s2cid=90190234 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Atkinson, Stockey & Rothwell
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
|
Spray Formation
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Cornales|Cornales]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''S. vancouverensis''.
|
|-
|
''Smilax tengchongensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jing-Yu Wu |author2=Yu-Sheng (Christopher) Liu |author3=Su-Ting Ding |author4=Jun Li |author5=Peng-Cheng An |year=2017 |title=Late Pliocene ''Smilax'' (Smilacaceae) leaves from Southwest China: Phytogeographical and paleoecological implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=241 |pages=26–38 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.006 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.241...26W }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu ''et al.''
|
Late Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Smilax|Smilax]]''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Succinanthera|Succinanthera]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George Poinar, Jr. |author2=Finn N. Rasmussen |year=2017 |title=Orchids from the past, with a new species in Baltic amber |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=183 |issue=3 |pages=327–333 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/bow018 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar & Rasmussen
|
Eocene
|
[[Earth:Baltic amber|Baltic amber]]
|
Europe ([[Place:Baltic Sea|Baltic Sea]] coast)
|
A member of [[Biology:Orchidaceae|Orchidaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''S. baltica''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Suciacarpa|Suciacarpa xiangae]]''<ref name=Sheltercarpa />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Atkinson, Stockey & Rothwell
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
|
Spray Formation
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
|
|-
|
''Suessenia''<ref name=Notiantha />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jud ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] (early [[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
Lower [[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Rhamnaceae|Rhamnaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''S. grandensis''.
|
|-
|
''Symplocoxylon panamense''<ref name="Jud-Dunham2017"/>
|
sp. nov.
|
|
Jud ''in'' Jud & Dunham
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
An [[Biology:Ericales|Ericales]] wood morphospecies 
|
|-
|
''Tabernaemontana moralesii''<ref name=PiedraChamana />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Woodcock, Meyer & Prado
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Tabernaemontana|Tabernaemontana]]''.
|
|-
|
''Terminalia bhairauvensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Terminalia (plant)|Terminalia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Toddalia purniyagiriensis''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prasad ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Rutaceae|Rutaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Trochodendroides magadanica''<ref name=Trochodendroides>{{cite journal |author1=L. B. Golovneva |author2=P. I. Alekseev |author3=A.A. Gnilovskaya |author4=D.A. Yudova |year=2017 |title=The genus ''Trochodendroides'' (Cercidiphyllaceae) in the Cretaceous floras of North-East of Russia |journal=Paleobotanika |volume=8 |pages=122–179 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=32231887 |doi=10.31111/palaeobotany/2017.8.122 }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Golovneva ''in'' Golovneva ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] described on the basis of fossil leaves.
|
|-
|
''Trochodendroides montana''<ref name=Trochodendroides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Alekseev ''in'' Golovneva ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] described on the basis of fossil leaves.
|
|-
|
''Trochodendroides samyliniae''<ref name=Trochodendroides />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Alekseev ''in'' Golovneva ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cercidiphyllaceae|Cercidiphyllaceae]] described on the basis of fossil leaves.
|
|-
|
''Tropidogyne pentaptera''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr. |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |year=2017 |title=''Tropidogyne pentaptera'', sp. nov., a new mid-Cretaceous fossil angiosperm flower in Burmese amber |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=135–140 |doi=10.18476/pale.v10.a10 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar & Chambers
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]] or [[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A probable member of [[Biology:Cunoniaceae|Cunoniaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Typha asiatica''<ref name=AP572Typha>{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2017 |title=New names of ''Typha'' of Northern Eurasia (Typhaceae) |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=233–236 |doi=10.1515/acpa-2017-0010 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Typha|Typha]]'' described on the basis of fossil seeds; a replacement name for ''Typha elongata'' Dorofeev (1982).
|
|-
|
''Typha latissimisperma''<ref name=AP572Typha />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
[[Earth:Bouldnor Formation#Bembridge Marls Member|Bembridge Marls]]
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Typha|Typha]]'' described on the basis of fossil seeds previously attributed to the species ''Typha latissima''.
|
|-
|
''Typha transdnestrovica''<ref name=AP572Typha />
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Doweld
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Serravallian|Serravallian]])
|
|
Transnistria
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Typha|Typha]]'' described on the basis of fossil seeds; a replacement name for ''Typha elliptica'' Negru (1972).
|
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''Ventilago miocalyculata''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Prasad ''et al.''
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Miocene
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{{Flag|India}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Ventilago|Ventilago]]''.
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''Wagatea miospicata''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Prasad ''et al.''
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Miocene
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{{Flag|India}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]].
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''Xanthophyllum mioglaucum''<ref name=Palaeobotanist66 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Prasad ''et al.''
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Miocene
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{{Flag|India}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Xanthophyllum|Xanthophyllum]]''.
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''Xylia siwalika''<ref name=PrasaetalJPSI2017 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Prasad ''et al.''
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Middle Miocene
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Siwalik Formation
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{{Flag|India}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Xylia|Xylia]]''.
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''Zelkova ningmingensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Fu-Jun Ma|author2=Bai-Nian Sun|author3=Qiu-Jun Wang|author4=Jun-Ling Dong|author5=Yi Yang|author6=De-Fei Yan|name-list-style=amp |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Zelkova'' (Ulmaceae, Ulmoideae) with leaves and fruits from the Oligocene of South China and its biogeographical implications |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1049538 |s2cid=88690736}}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Ma ''et al.''
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Oligocene
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Ningming Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Zelkova|Zelkova]]''.
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''Zlivifructus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zuzana Heřmanová |author2=Jiřina Dašková |author3=Boris Ekrt |author4=Jiří Kvaček |year=2017 |title=''Zlivifructus'' gen. nov., a new member of the Normapolles complex |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=246 |pages=177–184 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.06.012 |bibcode=2017RPaPa.246..177H }}</ref>
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Gen. et 2 sp. nov
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Valid
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Heřmanová, Dašková & Kvaček ''in'' Heřmanová ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Turonian|Turonian]] to [[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
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[[Earth:Aachen Formation|Aachen Formation]]<br>
Klikov Formation<br>
Walbeck Formation
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{{Flag|Czech Republic}}<br>
{{Flag|Germany}}
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A member of the Normapolles complex described on the basis of fossil flowers and fruits. Genus includes new species ''Z. vachae'' and ''Z. sklenarii''.
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==General research==
* Bomfleur ''et al.'' (2017) also provide an evolutionary ([[Biology:Phylogenetics|phylogenetic]], non-[[Biology:Cladistics|cladistic]]) classification in line with [[Biology:Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group|PPG I]] for all [[Biology:Rhizome|rhizome]] fossils of king ferns ([[Biology:Osmundales|Osmundales]]), which recognizes and describes two families with two subfamilies each (3 extinct, 1 extant), 13 extinct and six extant genera from the late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]] to now; the study includes as well an introduction into rhizome anatomy, a glossary of terminology, an analysis template (walkthrough) for placing new fossils, and a polytomous key to extinct and extant [[Biology:Taxon|taxa]].<ref name=":0" />
*A specimen of the extant [[Biology:Moss|moss]] species ''Helicophyllum torquatum'' is described from the Miocene [[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]] by Kubilius ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rimas A. Kubilius |author2=Adrian Bölz |author3=Kathrin Feldberg |author4=Lars Hedenäs |author5=Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp |author6=Alexander R. Schmidt |author7=Jochen Heinrichs |year=2017 |title=The moss ''Helicophyllum torquatum'' (Bryopsida: Helicophyllaceae) has survived since at least the Miocene |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=185 |issue=1 |pages=56–64 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/box041 }}</ref>
* A study on a deep, repetitive impression within a [[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] sandstone block recovered in a gravel quarry near Griffith (New South Wales, {{wipe|Australia}}) is published by McLean (2017), who considers the impression to be likely formed by the trunk or shed [[Biology:Bark (botany)#Periderm|periderm]] of a large [[Biology:Lycopsid|lycopsid]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Graham McLean |year=2017 |title=A "mystery fossil" is evidence for massive Devonian trees in Australia |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=101–118 |doi=10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1661 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of fossil [[Biology:Spermatophyte|seed plants]] based on data recovered from the fossil [[Biology:Plant cuticle|cuticles]] is published by Vajda ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Vivi Vajda |author2=Milda Pucetaite |author3=Stephen McLoughlin |author4=Anders Engdahl |author5=Jimmy Heimdal |author6=Per Uvdal |year=2017 |title=Molecular signatures of fossil leaves provide unexpected new evidence for extinct plant relationships |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=1 |issue=8 |pages=1093–1099 |doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0224-5 |pmid=29046567 |s2cid=3604369 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2567 }}</ref>
* New fossils of the early seed plant ''Cosmosperma polyloba'', providing new information making it possible to reconstruct the entire plant, are described from the [[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] ([[Earth:Famennian|Famennian]]) Wutong Formation ({{wipe|China}}) by Liu ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Le Liu |author2=Deming Wang |author3=Meicen Meng |author4=Jinzhuang Xue |year=2017 |title=Further study of Late Devonian seed plant ''Cosmosperma polyloba'': its reconstruction and evolutionary significance |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=149 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0992-1 |pmid=28651518 |pmc=5485708 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Description of fossil leaves of ''Plagiozamites oblongifolius'' from the upper [[Earth:Permian|Permian]] of southwest {{wipe|China}} (with well-preserved cuticles showing a combination of features typical for [[Biology:Cycadales|cycadaleans]]) is published by Feng ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Zhuo Feng |author2=Yong Lv |author3=Yun Guo |author4=Hai-Bo Wei |author5=Hans Kerp |year=2017 |title=Leaf anatomy of a late Palaeozoic cycad |journal=Biology Letters |volume=13 |issue=11 |pages=20170456 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2017.0456 |pmid=29093177 |pmc=5719380 }}</ref>
* A study on the impact of a global warming event across the [[Biology:Triassic–Jurassic extinction event|Triassic–Jurassic boundary]] on the ecological functioning of [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] communities from East [[Place:Greenland|Greenland]] as indicated by the value of leaf mass per area is published by Soh ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=W. K. Soh |author2=I. J. Wright |author3=K. L. Bacon |author4=T. I. Lenz |author5=M. Steinthorsdottir |author6=A. C. Parnell |author7=J. C. McElwain |year=2017 |title=Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event |journal=Nature Plants |volume=3 |issue=8 |pages=Article number 17104 |doi=10.1038/nplants.2017.104|pmid=28714942 |s2cid=21264406 |url=http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11749/1/Parnell_Palaeo_2017.pdf }}{{open access}}</ref>
* A diverse assemblage of petrified woods is described from the latest [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]–earliest [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] of [[Earth:Deccan Traps|Deccan]] [[Earth:Intertrappean Beds|Intertrappean Beds]] ({{wipe|India}}) by Wheeler ''et al.'' (2017), who note the presence of anatomical features of the studied specimens that make the Deccan assemblage more similar to the recent Indian and other Paleotropical woods from [[Earth:Asia|Asia]] and [[Earth:Africa|Africa]] than with the latest Cretaceous and Paleocene woods from the rest of the world.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Elisabeth A. Wheeler |author2=Rashmi Srivastava |author3=Steven R. Manchester |author4=Pieter Baas |year=2017 |title=Surprisingly modern Latest Cretaceous–earliest Paleocene woods of India |journal=IAWA Journal |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=456–542 |doi=10.1163/22941932-20170174 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the diversity of insect herbivory on fossil [[Biology:Flowering plant|angiosperm]] leaves from the Miocene Hindon Maar fossil lagerstätte (Otago, [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]]) is published by Möller ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Anna Lena Möller |author2=Uwe Kaulfuss |author3=Daphne E. Lee |author4=Torsten Wappler |year=2017 |title=High richness of insect herbivory from the early Miocene Hindon Maar crater, Otago, New Zealand |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e2985 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2985 |pmid=28224051 |pmc=5316282 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Volatile organic compounds produced by members of the family [[Biology:Dipterocarpaceae|Dipterocarpaceae]] are described from the Miocene [[Earth:Amber|amber]] from northeastern {{wipe|India}} by Dutta ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Suryendu Dutta |author2=Rakesh C. Mehrotra |author3=Swagata Paul |author4=R. P. Tiwari |author5=Sharmila Bhattacharya |author6=Gaurav Srivastava |author7=V. Z. Ralte |author8=C. Zoramthara |year=2017 |title=Remarkable preservation of terpenoids and record of volatile signalling in plant-animal interactions from Miocene amber |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 10940 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-09385-w |pmid=28887448 |pmc=5591258 |bibcode=2017NatSR...710940D }}</ref>
* A leaf fragment of a member of the fern family [[Biology:Lindsaeaceae|Lindsaeaceae]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement is described from the Cretaceous [[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]] by Regalado ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ledis Regalado |author2=Alexander R. Schmidt |author3=Patrick Müller |author4=Max J. Kobbert |author5=Harald Schneider |author6=Jochen Heinrichs |year=2017 |title=The first fossil of Lindsaeaceae (Polypodiales) from the Cretaceous amber forest of Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=72 |pages=8–12 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.003 |bibcode=2017CrRes..72....8R }}</ref>
* Several permineralised axes of the [[Biology:Conifer|conifer]] wood ''Ningxiaites specialis'' with preserved beetle borings and beetle remains are described from the [[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Changhsingian|Changhsingian]]) [[Earth:Sunjiagou Formation|Sunjiagou Formation]] ({{wipe|China}}) by Feng ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Zhuo Feng |author2=Jun Wang |author3=Ronny Rößler |author4=Adam Ślipiński |author5=Conrad Labandeira |year=2017 |title=Late Permian wood-borings reveal an intricate network of ecological relationships |journal=Nature Communications |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 556 |doi=10.1038/s41467-017-00696-0 |pmid=28916787 |pmc=5601472 |bibcode=2017NatCo...8..556F }}</ref>
* A study on the tree rings in the early [[Earth:Permian|Permian]] [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] wood from the Chemnitz petrified forest ({{wipe|Germany}}) is published by Luthardt & Rößler (2017), who interpret the findings as indicating the occurrence of the 11-year [[Astronomy:Solar cycle|solar cycle]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ludwig Luthardt |author2=Ronny Rößler |year=2017 |title=Fossil forest reveals sunspot activity in the early Permian |journal=Geology |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=279–282 |doi=10.1130/G38669.1 |bibcode=2017Geo....45..279L }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Scott St. George |author2=Richard J. Telford |year=2017 |title=Fossil forest reveals sunspot activity in the early Permian: COMMENT |journal=Geology |volume=45 |issue=10 |pages=e427 |doi=10.1130/G39414C.1 |bibcode=2017Geo....45E.427S |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ludwig Luthardt |author2=Ronny Rößler |year=2017 |title=Fossil forest reveals sunspot activity in the early Permian: REPLY |journal=Geology |volume=45 |issue=10 |pages=e428 |doi=10.1130/G39607Y.1 |bibcode=2017Geo....45E.428L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Biology:Conifer|Conifer]] fossils preserving evidence of [[Biology:Serotiny|serotiny]], interpreted as a fire-adaptive trait, are described from the [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]]) [[Earth:Tupuangi Formation|Tupuangi Formation]] (Pitt Island, [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]]) by Mays, Cantrill & Bevitt (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chris Mays |author2=David J. Cantrill |author3=Joseph J. Bevitt |year=2017 |title=Polar wildfires and conifer serotiny during the Cretaceous global hothouse |journal=Geology |volume=45 |issue=12 |pages=1119–1122 |doi=10.1130/G39453.1 |bibcode=2017Geo....45.1119M |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2741 }}</ref>
* A leafy axis of the conifer ''Glenrosa carentonensis'' is described from the [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] amber from {{wipe|France}} by Moreau ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jean-David Moreau |author2=Didier Néraudeau |author3=Vincent Perrichot |author4=Paul Tafforeau |year=2017 |title=100-million-year-old conifer tissues from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Charente (western France) revealed by synchrotron microtomography |journal=Annals of Botany |volume=119 |issue=1 |pages=117–128 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcw225 |pmid=27941095 |pmc=5218381 }}</ref>
* Fossil specimens of the [[Biology:Pseudolarix|golden larch]] preserving [[Biology:Plant cuticle|cuticles]] are described from the late Miocene Shengxian Formation ({{wipe|China}}) by Bai & Li (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yunjun Bai |author2=Xiaoqiang Li |year=2017 |title=Late Miocene ''Pseudolarix amabilis'' bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=7 |pages=e0180979 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0180979 |pmid=28686672 |pmc=5501647 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1280979B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Plant stem|stem]] and [[Biology:Leaf|leaf]] anatomy of members of the families [[Biology:Cheirolepidiaceae|Cheirolepidiaceae]] (a member of the genus ''Pseudofrenelopsis'' of uncertain specific assignment) and [[Biology:Araucariaceae|Araucariaceae]] (''[[Biology:Brachyphyllum|Brachyphyllum]] obesum'') known from the [[Earth:Lower Cretaceous|Lower Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]) [[Earth:Crato Formation|Crato Formation]] ({{wipe|Brazil}}) is published by Batista ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Maria Edenilce Peixoto Batista |author2=Delmira da Costa Silva |author3=Marcos A. F. Sales |author4=Artur A. Sá |author5=Antônio A. F. Saraiva |author6=Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola |year=2017 |title=New data on the stem and leaf anatomy of two conifers from the Lower Cretaceous of the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, and their taxonomic and paleoecological implications |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=e0173090 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0173090 |pmid=28257466 |pmc=5336239 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1273090B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Peris ''et al.'' (2017) describe [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] [[Biology:Pollen|pollen]] preserved with a specimen of the [[Biology:Oedemeridae|false blister beetle]] species ''Darwinylus marcosi'' from the [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] [[Earth:Amber|amber]] from {{wipe|Spain}}, and interpret the finding as indicating that false blister beetles originally were [[Biology:Pollinator|pollinator]]s of gymnosperms (most likely [[Biology:Cycad|cycad]]s) before transitioning onto [[Biology:Flowering plant|angiosperm]] hosts.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=David Peris |author2=Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente |author3=Enrique Peñalver |author4=Xavier Delclòs |author5=Eduardo Barrón |author6=Conrad C. Labandeira |year=2017 |title=False Blister Beetles and the Expansion of Gymnosperm-Insect Pollination Modes before Angiosperm Dominance |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=6 |pages=897–904 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.009 |pmid=28262492 |doi-access=free |hdl=2445/163381 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* A review of the fossil record and early evolution of five groups of [[Biology:Brachycera|brachycera]]n flies, discussing their probable ecological associations with early flowering plants, is published by Zhang & Wang (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qingqing Zhang |author2=Bo Wang |year=2017 |title=Evolution of lower brachyceran flies (Diptera) and their adaptive radiation with angiosperms |journal=Frontiers in Plant Science |volume=8 |pages=Article 631 |doi=10.3389/fpls.2017.00631 |pmid=28484485 |pmc=5401883 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Fossil [[Biology:Pollen|pollen]] grains of members of the family [[Biology:Loranthaceae|Loranthaceae]], preserving morphological features making it possible to assign the pollen to distinct lineages within the Loranthaceae, are described from the middle [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] of the {{wipe|United States}}, [[Place:Greenland|Greenland]], Central Europe and East Asia, and from the late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]/early Miocene of {{wipe|Germany}} by Grímsson ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Friðgeir Grímsson |author2=Paschalia Kapli |author3=Christa-Charlotte Hofmann |author4=Reinhard Zetter |author5=Guido W. Grimm |year=2017 |title=Eocene Loranthaceae pollen pushes back divergence ages for major splits in the family |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3373 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3373 |pmid=28607837 |pmc=5466002 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Plant remains found in the [[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]]) [[Earth:Lameta Formation|Lameta sediments]] and associated [[Biology:Sauropoda|sauropod]] coprolites from the Nand-Dongargaon basin (Maharashtra, {{wipe|India}}) are described by Sonkusare, Samant & Mohabey (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hemant Sonkusare |author2=Bandana Samant |author3=D. M. Mohabey |year=2017 |title=Microflora from sauropod coprolites and associated sediments of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lameta Formation of Nand-Dongargaon basin, Maharashtra |journal=Journal of the Geological Society of India |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=391–397 |doi=10.1007/s12594-017-0620-0 |s2cid=135418472 }}</ref>
* A study on the impact of large herbivorous dinosaurs on global [[Biology:Plant nutrition|nutrient]] availability in the [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] as indicated by remnant plant material ([[Earth:Coal|coal]] deposits) is published by Doughty (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Christopher E. Doughty |year=2017 |title=Herbivores increase the global availability of nutrients over millions of years |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=1 |issue=12 |pages=1820–1827 |doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0341-1 |pmid=29038478 |s2cid=13844413 }}</ref>
* A study on the molecular age of the earliest flowering plant lineages is published by Salomo ''et al.'' (2017), who recover the flowering plants as originating at the late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]], ~275 million years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Karsten Salomo |author2=James F. Smith |author3=Taylor S. Feild |author4=Marie-Stéphanie Samain |author5=Laura Bond |author6=Christopher Davidson |author7=Jay Zimmers |author8=Christoph Neinhuis |author9=Stefan Wanke |year=2017 |title=The emergence of earliest angiosperms may be earlier than fossil evidence indicates |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1600/036364417X696438 |pmid=29398773 |pmc=5792071 }}</ref>

==References==
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