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This article records new [[Biology:Taxon|taxa]] of fossil [[Biology:Plant|plant]]s that are scheduled to be [[Biology:Binomial nomenclature|described]] during the year 2020, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to [[Biology:Paleobotany|paleobotany]] that are scheduled to occur in the year 2020.

==Flowering plants==

===Alismatales===
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''Limnobiophyllum pedunculatum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Shook Ling Low |author2=Tao Su |author3=Teresa E. V. Spicer |author4=Fei-Xiang Wu |author5=Tao Deng |author6=Yao-Wu Xing |author7=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2020 |title=Oligocene ''Limnobiophyllum'' (Araceae) from the central Tibetan Plateau and its evolutionary and palaeoenvironmental implications |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=18 |issue=5 |pages=415–431 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2019.1611673 |bibcode=2020JSPal..18..415L |s2cid=208589882 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Low, Su & Xing ''in'' Low ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Araceae|Araceae]].
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===Apiales===
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''[[Biology:Paleopanax|Paleopanax puryearensis]]''<ref name=PE233Naetal>{{cite journal |author1=Yuling Na |author2=Jane Blanchard |author3=Hongshan Wang |year=2020 |title=Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Puryear clay pit (middle Eocene Cockfield Formation), western Tennessee, USA |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=Article number 23(3):a49 |doi=10.26879/1045 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Na, Blanchard & Wang
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Middle Eocene
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Cockfield Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Tennessee}})
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A member of the family [[Biology:Araliaceae|Araliaceae]].
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===Arecales===
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''Echimonocolpites chicxulubensis''<ref name=Scabrastephanoporites>{{Cite journal|author1=Vann Smith |author2=Sophie Warny |author3=David M. Jarzen |author4=Thomas Demchuk |author5=Vivi Vajda |author6=Sean P.S. Gulick |year=2020 |title=Paleocene–Eocene palynomorphs from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 2: angiosperm pollen |journal=Palynology |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=489–519 |doi=10.1080/01916122.2019.1705417 |bibcode=2020Paly...44..489S |s2cid=213827225 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-4105 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Smith ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
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{{Flag|Mexico}}
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Pollen of a flowering plant, probably a member of the family [[Biology:Arecaceae|Arecaceae]].
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''[[Biology:Palmoxylon|Palmoxylon ceroxyloides]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahasin Ali Khan |author2=Manoshi Hazra |author3=Sumana Mahato |author4=Robert A. Spicer |author5=Kaustav Roy |author6=Taposhi Hazra |author7=Manosij Bandopadhaya |author8=Teresa E.V. Spicer |author9=Subir Bera |year=2020 |title=A Cretaceous Gondwana origin of the wax palm subfamily (Ceroxyloideae: Arecaceae) and its paleobiogeographic context |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=283 |pages=Article 104318 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104318 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304318K |s2cid=224946279 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press 
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Khan, Hazra & Bera ''in'' Khan ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])-[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
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[[Earth:Deccan Traps|Deccan]] [[Earth:Intertrappean Beds|Intertrappean Beds]]
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{{Flag|India}}
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A petrified [[Biology:Arecaceae|palm]] stem of a member of the subfamily [[Biology:Ceroxyloideae|Ceroxyloideae]].
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''[[Biology:Palmoxylon|Palmoxylon dindoriensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mahasin Ali Khan |author2=Kaustav Roy |author3=Taposhi Hazra |author4=Sumana Mahato |author5=Subir Bera |year=2020 |title=A new coryphoid palm from the Maastrichtian-Danian sediments of Madhya Pradesh and its palaeoenvironmental implications |journal=Journal of the Geological Society of India |volume=95 |issue=1 |pages=75–83 |doi=10.1007/s12594-020-1388-1 |bibcode=2020JGSI...95...75K |s2cid=210134584 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Khan, Roy & Bera ''in'' Khan ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])-[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
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[[Earth:Deccan Traps|Deccan]] [[Earth:Intertrappean Beds|Intertrappean Beds]]
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{{Flag|India}}
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A petrified [[Biology:Arecaceae|palm]] stem.
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''[[Biology:Sabalites|Sabalites dawsonii]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=David Robert Greenwood |author2=John G. Conran |year=2020 |title=Fossil coryphoid palms from the Eocene of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=2 |pages=224–240 |doi=10.1086/706450 |s2cid=208587364 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Greenwood & Conran
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
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''Sabalites karondiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Kaustav Roy |author2=Taposhi Hazra |author3=Manoshi Hazra |author4=Sumana Mahato |author5=Subir Bera |author6=Mahasin Ali Khan |year=2020 |title=A new coryphoid costapalmate palm leaf from the Maastrichtian-Danian of India |journal=Botany Letters |volume=168 |issue=2 |pages=155–166 |doi=10.1080/23818107.2020.1845974 |s2cid=229408918 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Roy, Hazra & Khan ''in'' Roy ''et al.''
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Late Cretaceous-Paleocene (latest [[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]]-earliest [[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
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Deccan Intertrappean Beds
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{{Flag|India}}
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A palm frond .
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''Spinizonocolpites riochiquensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Patricia Vallati |author2=Andrea De Sosa Tomas |author3=Gabriel Casal |year=2020 |title=A Maastrichtian terrestrial palaeoenvironment close to the K/Pg boundary in the Golfo San Jorge basin, Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=97 |pages=Article 102401 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102401 |bibcode=2020JSAES..9702401V |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Vallati & De Sosa Tomas ''in'' Vallati, De Sosa Tomas & Casal
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
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[[Earth:Lago Colhué Huapí Formation|Lago Colhué Huapí Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A member of [[Biology:Arecaceae|Arecaceae]] described on the basis of fossil pollen grains. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
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===Buxales===
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''Pachysandra europaea''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
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Pliocene
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{{Flag|Germany}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Pachysandra|Pachysandra]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
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===Caryophyllales===
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''Gomphrenipollis garciae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
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Miocene
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Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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Pollen of a flowering plant, possibly produced by members of the family [[Biology:Amaranthaceae|Amaranthaceae]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
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===Chloranthales===
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''Sarcandraxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=M. Laura Pipo |author2=Ari Iglesias |author3=Josefina Bodnar |year=2020 |title=A new vesselless angiosperm stem with a cambial variant from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=261–272 |doi=10.4202/app.00697.2019 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/136234 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Pipo, Iglesias & Bodnar
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (early–middle [[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
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[[Earth:Santa Marta Formation|Santa Marta Formation]]
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[[Earth:Antarctica|Antarctica]]
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A member of the family [[Biology:Chloranthaceae|Chloranthaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''S. sanjosense''.
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===Cornales===
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''Amersinia littletonensis''<ref name=IJPSHuegeleManchester>{{Cite journal|author1=Indah B. Huegele |author2=Steven R. Manchester |year=2020 |title=An early Paleocene carpoflora from the Denver Basin of Colorado, USA, and its implications for plant-animal interactions and fruit size evolution |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=6 |pages=646–665 |doi=10.1086/707727 |s2cid=219748982 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Huegele & Manchester
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Early [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
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Denver Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}})
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''Langtonia parva''<ref name=IJPSHuegeleManchester />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Huegele & Manchester
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Early Paleocene
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Denver Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}})
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A member of the family Mastixiaceae.
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''Mastixicarpum hoodii''<ref name=IJPSHuegeleManchester />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Huegele & Manchester
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Early Paleocene
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Denver Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}})
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A member of the family Mastixiaceae.
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''Nyssa gergoei''<ref name=AP601Hably>{{Cite journal|author=Lilla Hably |year=2020 |title=The Karpatian (late early Miocene) flora of the Mecsek area |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=51–122 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0003 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Hably
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Miocene
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{{Flag|Hungary}}
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A [[Biology:Tupelo|tupelo]].
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''Nyssa gyoergyi''<ref name=AP601Hably />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Hably
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Miocene
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{{Flag|Hungary}}
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A tupelo.
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''Platycrater iljinskajae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas Denk |author2=Johannes Martin Bouchal |author3=Pavel Smirnov |author4=Yaroslav Trubin |year=2020 |title=Late Oligocene leaf and pollen flora of Southwestern Siberia: taxonomy, biogeography and palaeoenvironments |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=11 |pages=2951–2976 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1839064 |s2cid=230547821 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Late_Oligocene_leaf_and_pollen_flora_of_Southwestern_Siberia_taxonomy_biogeography_and_palaeoenvironments/13365394 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Denk ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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''Portnallia alexanderi''<ref name=IJPSHuegeleManchester />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Huegele & Manchester
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Early Paleocene
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Denver Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}})
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A member of the family Mastixiaceae.
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===Crossosomatales===
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| ''Staphylea woodworthensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hai Zhu |author2=Steven R. Manchester |year=2020 |title=Fruit of ''Staphylea'' (Staphyleaceae) from the Oligocene of Montana, USA |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=280 |pages=Article 104275 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104275 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28004275Z |s2cid=225729365 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| In press
| Zhu & Manchester
| [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
| Renova Formation
| {{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
| A species of ''[[Biology:Staphylea|Staphylea]]''.
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===Cucurbitales===
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''Coriaripites goodii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Susanne S. Renner |author2=Viviana D. Barreda |author3=María Cristina Tellería |author4=Luis Palazzesi |author5=Tanja M. Schuster |year=2020 |title=Early evolution of Coriariaceae (Cucurbitales) in light of a new early Campanian (ca. 82 Mya) pollen record from Antarctica |journal=Taxon |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=87–99 |doi=10.1002/tax.12203 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Barreda, Palazzesi & Tellería ''in'' Renner ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]]–early [[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
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[[Earth:Lopez de Bertodano Formation|Lopez de Bertodano Formation]]<br>
[[Earth:Santa Marta Formation|Santa Marta Formation]]<br>
[[Earth:Snow Hill Island Formation|Snow Hill Island Formation]]
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[[Earth:Antarctica|Antarctica]]
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Pollen grains similar to those of extant members of the genus ''[[Biology:Coriaria|Coriaria]]''.
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''Echitriporites jolyi''<ref name=Palynology451 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
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Miocene
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Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Cayaponia|Cayaponia]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
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===Ericales===
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''Andrewsiocarpon puryearensis''<ref name=PE233Naetal />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Na, Blanchard & Wang
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Middle Eocene
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Cockfield Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Tennessee}})
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A member of the family [[Biology:Theaceae|Theaceae]].
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''Anubiscarpon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=MacKenzie Allan Smith |author2=Steven R. Manchester |year=2020 |title=CT-scans of capsules from the Clarno Formation (Oregon, USA) reveal an extinct Eocene theaceous taxon |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=251–258 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0013 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Smith & Manchester
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Middle Eocene
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Clarno Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Oregon}})
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A member of the family Theaceae. Genus includes new species ''A. andersonae''.
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===Fabales===
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''Cercis zekuensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiang‐Chuan Li |author2=Steven R. Manchester |author3=Qin Wang |author4=Liang Xiao |author5=Tian‐Long Qi |author6=Yun‐Zhi Yao |author7=Dong Ren |author8=Qiang Yang |year=2020 |title=A unique record of ''Cercis'' from the late early Miocene of interior Asia and its significance for paleoenvironment and paleophytogeography |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=1321–1338 |doi=10.1111/jse.12640 |s2cid=219523602 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Li ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Cercis|Cercis]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
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''Gleditsia pliocaenica''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
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Pliocene
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{{Flag|Germany}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Gleditsia|Gleditsia]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
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| ''Menendoxylon lutzi''<ref name=Bastardioxylon />
| Sp. nov
| In press
| Baez & Crisafulli
| Miocene
| Chiquimil
| {{Flag|Argentina}}
| Fossil wood of a member of the family [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]].
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''Parkiidites marileae''<ref name=Palynology451>{{Cite journal|author1=Fátima Praxedes Rabelo Leite |author2=Silane Aparecida Ferreira da Silva-Caminha |author3=Carlos D’Apolito |year=2020 |title=New Neogene index pollen and spore taxa from the Solimões Basin (Western Amazonia), Brazil |journal=Palynology |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=115–141 |doi=10.1080/01916122.2020.1758971 |s2cid=219090032 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
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Miocene
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Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Parkia|Parkia]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
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''Prioria martineziorum''<ref name=Veraguasoxylon />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rodríguez-Reyes & Estrada-Ruiz
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Oligocene-Miocene
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Santiago Formation
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{{Flag|Panama}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Prioria|Prioria]]''.
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''Psilastephanocolporites deoliverae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
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Miocene
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Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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Pollen produced by members of the family [[Biology:Polygalaceae|Polygalaceae]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
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''Psilastephanocolporites endoporatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
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Miocene
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Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
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''Striatopollis grahamii''<ref name=Scabrastephanoporites />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Smith ''et al.''
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Eocene (Ypresian)
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{{Flag|Mexico}}
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Pollen of an [[Biology:Eudicots|eudicot]], probably a member of the family [[Biology:Fabaceae|Fabaceae]].
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===Fagales===
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''Alnus chaybulakensis''<ref name=BZ1051>{{Cite journal|author1=A.L. Averyanova |author2=Yaowu Xing |year=2020 |title=New Paleogene angiosperm species of Zaissan Depression (eastern Kazakhstan) |journal=Botanicheskii Zhurnal |volume=105 |issue=1 |pages=46–57 |doi=10.31857/S0006813620010044 |s2cid=218793001 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Averyanova & Xing
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[[Earth:Paleogene|Paleogene]]
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{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
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An [[Biology:Alder|alder]].
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''Berryophyllum hainanensis''<ref name=FEEFagaceae>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiaoyan Liu |author2=Hanzhang Song |author3=Jianhua Jin |year=2020 |title=Diversity of Fagaceae on Hainan Island of South China during the middle Eocene: implications for phytogeography and paleoecology |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=8 |pages=Article 255 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2020.00255 |s2cid=221117336 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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Changchang Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Fagaceae|Fagaceae]].
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''Carpinus asymmetrica''<ref name=PDCarpinus>{{Cite journal|author1=Li Xue |author2=Linbo Jia |author3=Gi-soo Nam |author4=Yongjiang Huang |author5=Shitao Zhang |author6=Yuqing Wang |author7=Zhuo Zhou |author8=Yongsheng Chen |year=2020 |title=Involucre fossils of ''Carpinus'', a northern temperate element, from the Miocene of China and the evolution of its species diversity in East Asia |journal=Plant Diversity |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages= 155–167|doi=10.1016/j.pld.2020.01.001 |pmid=32695948 |pmc=7361179 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Xue & Jia ''in'' Xue ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
| Maguan
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Carpinus|Carpinus]]''.
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|''Carpinus symmetrica''<ref name=PDCarpinus />
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Xue & Jia ''in'' Xue ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
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Maguan Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Carpinus|Carpinus]]''
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''Carya pipecreekensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Anthony L. Swinehart |author2=James O. Farlow |year=2020 |title=Plant and invertebrate macrofossils from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Late Neogene), Grant County, Indiana |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=11 |pages=3111–3140 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1851686 |s2cid=230538832 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Swinehart & Farlow
|
Late [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
Pipe Creek Sinkhole
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Indiana}})
|
A [[Biology:Hickory|hickory]].
|
|-
|
''Castaneophyllum hainanensis''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Fagaceae.
|
|-
|
''Castaneophyllum lanceolata''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Fagaceae.
|
|-
| ''Castanopsis bulgarica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Dimitra Mantzouka |author2=Miroslav Ivanov |author3=Vladimir Bozukov |year=2020 |title=The first report of an 'evergreen ''Castanopsis'' type' wood (Fagaceae) for the Late Miocene–Early Pliocene of Europe (Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad Graben) |journal=Geological Journal |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=786–803 |doi=10.1002/gj.3919 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Mantzouka, Ivanov & Bozukov
| Late Miocene–early Pliocene (late [[Biology:Messinian|Messinian]]–early Zanclean)
| Pokrovnik
| {{Flag|Bulgaria}}
| A species of ''[[Biology:Castanopsis|Castanopsis]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. 
|
|-
|
''Lithocarpus changchangensis''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Lithocarpus|Lithocarpus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Quercus borissovii''<ref name=BZ1051 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Averyanova & Xing
|
[[Earth:Paleogene|Paleogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
|
An [[Biology:Oak|oak]].
|
|-
|
''Quercus changchangensis''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An oak.
|
|-
|
''Quercus paleoargyrotricha''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An oak.
|
|-
|
''Quercus paleohypargyrea''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An oak.
|
|-
|
''Quercus paleolamellosa''<ref name=FEEFagaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Jin ''in'' Liu, Song & Jin
|
Eocene
|
Changchang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An oak.
|
|-
|}

===Garryales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Eucommia szaferi''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Eucommia|Eucommia]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
|
|-
|}

===Gentianales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Asclepiadospermum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Cédric Del Rio |author2=Teng‐Xiang Wang |author3=Jia Liu |author4=Shui‐Qing Liang |author5=Robert A. Spicer |author6=Fei‐Xiang Wu |author7=Zhe‐Kun Zhou |author8=Tao Su |year=2020 |title=''Asclepiadospermum'' gen. nov., the earliest fossil record of Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae) from the early Eocene of central Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau, and its biogeographic implications |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=126–138 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1418 |pmid=31944266 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et 2 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An [[Biology:Asclepiadoideae|asclepiadoid]] [[Biology:Apocynaceae|Apocynaceae]] genus.<br/>Included species ''A. marginatum'' and ''A. ellipticum''.
|
|-
|
''Margocolporites carinae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Rauvolfia|Rauvolfia]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|}

===Icacinales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Iodes elliptica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Cédric Del Rio |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Gregory W. Stull |author4=Rémi Allemand |author5=Zhe‐Kun Zhou |author6=Tao Su |year=2020 |title=First macrofossil record of Icacinaceae in East Asia (early Oligocene, Wenshan Basin) and its ecological implications |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=445–455 |doi=10.1111/jse.12700 |s2cid=228976920 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Del Rio  ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Wenshan Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Icacinaceae|Icacinaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Iodes passiciensis''<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Cédric Del Rio |author2=Dario De Franceschi |year=2020 |title=Icacinaceae fossil fruits from three sites of the Paris Basin (early Eocene, France): local diversity and global biogeographic implications |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=17–28 |doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a2 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/42/fasc1/fruits-fossiles-d-icacinaceae-provenant-de-trois-sites-du-bassin-parisien-debut-eocene-france-diversite-locale-et-implications-biogeographiques |doi-access=free }}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Del Rio & De Franceschi
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of the family Icacinaceae.
|
|-
|
''Manchesteria''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrew C. Rozefelds |author2=Gregory Stull |author3=Peta Hayes |author4=David R. Greenwood |year=2020 |title=The fossil record of Icacinaceae in Australia supports long-standing Palaeo-Antarctic rainforest connections in southern high latitudes |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=11 |pages= 2854–2864|doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1832089 |s2cid=229005088 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press
|
Stull & Rozefelds ''in'' Rozefelds ''et al.''
|
Cenozoic (mid-Miocene or, more likely, middle Eocene)
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A member of the family Icacinaceae. Genus includes new species ''M. australis''.
|
|-
|
''Pyrenacantha simonsii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gregory Stull |author2=Bruce H. Tiffney |author3=Steven R. Manchester |author4=Cédric Del Rio |author5=Scott L. Wing |year=2020 |title=Endocarps of ''Pyrenacantha'' (Icacinaceae) from the early Oligocene of Egypt |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=4 |pages=432–442 |doi=10.1086/706854 |s2cid=208558190 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Stull ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Pyrenacantha|Pyrenacantha]]''.
|
|-
|}

===Lamiales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Echitricolpites cruziae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Aegiphila|Aegiphila]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Multiareolites? reticulatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the family [[Biology:Acanthaceae|Acanthaceae]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retistephanocolpites curvimuratus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retistephanocolpites pardoi''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant, possibly produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Amphilophium|Amphilophium]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|}

===Laurales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Actinodaphnoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ünal Akkemik |author2=Dimitra Mantzouka |author3=Umut Tunç |author4=Fikret Koçbulut |year=2020 |title=The first paleoxylotomical evidence from the Mid-Eocene Climate Optimum from Turkey |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=285 |pages=Article 104356 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104356 |s2cid=229395041 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press 
|
Akkemik ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Lutetian|Lutetian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Lauraceae|Lauraceae]]. Genus includes new species ''A. zileensis''.
|
|-
|
''Mezilaurinoxylon oleiferum''<ref name=Patagonoxylon>{{Cite journal|author1=Daniela P. Ruiz |author2=M. Sol Raigemborn |author3=Mariana Brea |author4=Roberto R. Pujana |year=2020 |title=Paleocene Las Violetas Fossil Forest: Wood anatomy and paleoclimatology |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=98 |pages=Article 102414 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102414 |bibcode=2020JSAES..9802414R |s2cid=213796947 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ruiz, Brea & Pujana ''in'' Ruiz ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
[[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Lauraceae|Lauraceae]]. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Patagonoxylon''<ref name=Patagonoxylon />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ruiz, Brea & Pujana ''in'' Ruiz ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
[[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Laurales|Laurales]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''P. scalariforme''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Thymolepis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Kenton L. Chambers |author2=George O. Poinar, Jr |year=2020 |title=''Thymolepis toxandra'' gen. et sp. nov., a mid-Cretaceous fossil flower with horseshoe-shaped anthers |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=57–64 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i1.896 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Chambers & Poinar
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
Possibly an early representative of [[Biology:Monimiaceae|Monimiaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''T. toxandra''.
|
|-
|
''Valviloculus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |author3=Urszula T. Iwaniec |author4=Fernando E. Vega |year=2020 |title=''Valviloculus pleristaminis'' gen. et sp. nov., a Lauralean fossil flower with valvate anthers from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=359–366 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i2.1014 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar ''et al.''
|
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
|
Burmese amber
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
Possibly a member of Laurales related to the families Monimiaceae and [[Biology:Atherospermataceae|Atherospermataceae]]. Genus includes new species ''V. pleristaminis''.
|
|-
|}

===Liliales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Smilax fujianensis''<ref name=GJSmilax>{{Cite journal|author1=Jun‐Ling Dong |author2=Bai‐Nian Sun |author3=Ai‐Jing Li |author4=Hui Chen |year=2020 |title=The diversity of ''Smilax'' (Smilacaceae) leaves from the Middle Miocene in southeastern China |journal=Geological Journal |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=744–757 |doi=10.1002/gj.3882 |s2cid=225790148 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Dong ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Smilax|Smilax]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. 
|
|-
|
''Smilax zhangpuensis''<ref name=GJSmilax />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Dong ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Smilax''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. 
|
|-
|}

===Magnoliales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Magnolia nanningensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lu‐Liang Huang |author2=Jian‐Hua Jin |author3=Cheng Quan |author4=Alexei A. Oskolski |year=2020 |title=Mummified Magnoliaceae woods from the upper Oligocene of South China, with biogeography, paleoecology, and wood trait evolution implications |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=89–100 |doi=10.1111/jse.12480 |s2cid=91861708 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Nanning Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Magnolia|Magnolia]]''.
|
|-
|
''Magnolia waltheri''<ref name=PPKvaceketal>{{Cite journal|author1=Zlatko Kvaček |author2=Vasilis Teodoridis |author3=Thomas Denk |year=2020 |title=The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main, Germany: taxonomy, palaeoenvironments and biogeographic affinities |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=647–703 |doi=10.1007/s12549-019-00391-6 |bibcode=2020PdPe..100..647K |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Magnolia|Magnolia]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Melloniflora''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Else Marie Friis |author2=Peter R. Crane |author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |year=2020 |title=''Melloniflora'', a new extinct multiparted flower from the Early Cretaceous of Virginia, USA |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=9 |pages=887–897 |doi=10.1086/710490 |s2cid=224837365 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis, Crane & Pedersen
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
Potomac Group
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Virginia}})
|
A relative of extant early-diverging members of the Magnoliales. Genus includes new species ''M. virginiensis''.
|
|-
|}

===Malpighiales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Salix palaeofutura''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Atsufumi Narita |author2=Atsushi Yabe |author3=Kazuhiko Uemura |author4=Midori Matsumoto |year=2020 |title=Late middle Miocene Konan flora from northern Hokkaido, Japan |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=259–295 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0012 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Narita ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
Bifuka Formation
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
A [[Biology:Willow|willow]].
|
|-
|}

===Malvales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
| ''Bastardioxylon''<ref name=Bastardioxylon>{{cite journal |author1=Johanna Baez |author2=Alexandra Crisafulli |year=2020 |title=Novelties in the xylotaphoflora from Chiquimil Formation (Miocene), Catamarca-Argentina |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=107 |pages=Article 102943 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102943 |s2cid=225109309 }}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov
| In press
| Baez & Crisafulli
| Miocene
| Chiquimil
| {{Flag|Argentina}}
| Fossil wood of a member of the family [[Biology:Malvaceae|Malvaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''B. antiqua''.
|
|-
| ''Dipterocarpus dindoriensis''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mahasin Ali Khan |author2=Robert A. Spicer |author3=Teresa E. V. Spicer |author4=Kaustav Roy |author5=Manoshi Hazra |author6=Taposhi Hazra |author7=Sumana Mahato |author8=Sanchita Kumar |author9=Subir Bera |year=2020 |title=''Dipterocarpus'' (Dipterocarpaceae) leaves from the K-Pg of India: a Cretaceous Gondwana presence of the Dipterocarpaceae |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=306 |issue=6 |pages=Article 90 |doi=10.1007/s00606-020-01718-z |bibcode=2020PSyEv.306...90K |s2cid=228870254 }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Khan, Spicer & Bera ''in'' Khan ''et al.''
| [[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
| [[Earth:Deccan Traps|Deccan]] [[Earth:Intertrappean Beds|Intertrappean Beds]]
| {{Flag|India}}
| A species of ''[[Biology:Dipterocarpus|Dipterocarpus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Echiperiporites germeraadii''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Echiperiporites jaramilloi''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Hibiscus|Hibiscus]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Echiperiporites titanicus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Malachra|Malachra]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retistephanocolporites elizabeteae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the genus ''[[Biology:Ceiba|Ceiba]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Veraguasoxylon''<ref name=Veraguasoxylon>{{Cite journal|author1=Oris J. Rodríguez-Reyes |author2=Emilio Estrada-Ruiz |year=2020 |title=Two new reports of ancient rainforest trees from the Azuero Peninsula, Panama |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=209–218 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.22.02.2020.3299 |s2cid=216250364 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rodríguez-Reyes & Estrada-Ruiz
|
Oligocene-Miocene
|
Santiago Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Malvaceae|Malvaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''V. panamense''.
|
|-
|}

===Myrtales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Eucalyptus xoshemium''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Maria C. Zamaloa |author2=Maria A. Gandolfo |author3=Kevin C. Nixon |year=2020 |title=52 million years old ''Eucalyptus'' flower sheds more than pollen grains |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=12 |pages=1763–1771 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1569 |pmid=33274448 |pmc=7839439 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gandolfo & Zamaloa ''in'' Zamaloa, Gandolfo & Nixon
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
|
[[Earth:Huitrera Formation|Huitrera Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Eucalyptus|Eucalyptus]]''.
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|-
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''Mangroveoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Eliana Moya |author2=Mariana Brea |year=2020 |title=Combretaceous fossil wood from Ituzaingó Formation (Late Miocene?), Argentina, indicate a coastal marine environment |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=281 |pages=Article 104270 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104270 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104270M |hdl=11336/142562 |s2cid=224947789 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
In press
|
Moya & Brea
|
Late Miocene?
|
[[Earth:Ituzaingó Formation|Ituzaingó Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Combretaceae|Combretaceae]]; a new genus for ''"Menendoxylon" areniensis'' Lutz (1979).
|
|-
|
''Myrceugenellites grandiporosum''<ref name=Patagonoxylon />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ruiz, Brea & Pujana ''in'' Ruiz ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
[[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Myrtaceae|Myrtaceae]]. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Primotrapa''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ya Li |author2=Yi-Ming Cui |author3=Carole T. Gee |author4=Xiao-Qing Liang |author5=Cheng-Sen Li |year=2020 |title=''Primotrapa'' gen. nov., an extinct transitional genus bridging the evolutionary gap between Lythraceae and Trapoideae, from the early Miocene of North China |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=150 |doi=10.1186/s12862-020-01697-2 |pmid=33183234 |pmc=7661254 |bibcode=2020BMCEE..20..150L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li & Li ''in'' Li ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] to early Miocene
|
Hannuoba
|
{{Flag|China}}<br>
{{Flag|Czech Republic}}<br>
{{Flag|France}}<br>
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Trapoideae|Trapoideae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. weichangensis'', as well as ''"Carpolithus" pomelii'' Saporta (1878) and ''"Hemitrapa" alpina'' Su & Zhou ''in'' Su ''et al.'' (2018).
|
|-
|}

===Nymphaeales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Praenymphaeapollenites''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=David Peris |author2=Conrad C. Labandeira |author3=Eduardo Barrón |author4=Xavier Delclòs |author5=Jes Rust |author6=Bo Wang |year=2020 |title=Generalist pollen-feeding beetles during the mid-Cretaceous |journal=iScience |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=Article 100913 |doi=10.1016/j.isci.2020.100913 |pmid=32191877 |pmc=7113562 |bibcode=2020iSci...23j0913P }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Barrón, Peris & Labandeira ''in'' Peris ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]]
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
Pollen of a member of [[Biology:Nymphaeaceae|Nymphaeaceae]].<br/> Genus includes new species ''P. cenomaniensis''.
|
|-
|}

===Oxalidales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Cunoniantha''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Nathan A. Jud |author2=Maria A. Gandolfo |year=2020 |title=Fossil evidence from South America for the diversification of Cunoniaceae by the earliest Palaeocene |journal=Annals of Botany |volume=127 |issue=3 |pages=305–315 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcaa154 |pmid=32860407 |pmc=7872129 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jud & Gandolfo
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] (early [[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
|
[[Earth:Salamanca Formation|Salamanca Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cunoniaceae|Cunoniaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. bicarpellata''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Elaeocarpus nanningensis''<ref name=JSEElaeocarpus>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao‐Yan Liu |author2=Steven R. Manchester |author3=Andrew C. Rozefelds |author4=Cheng Quan |author5=Jian‐Hua Jin |year=2020 |title=First fossil fruits of ''Elaeocarpus'' (Elaeocarpaceae) in East Asia: implications for phytogeography and paleoecology |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=456–471 |doi=10.1111/jse.12684 |s2cid=234429843 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Yongning Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Elaeocarpus|Elaeocarpus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Elaeocarpus prelacunosus''<ref name=JSEElaeocarpus />
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Foluo Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Elaeocarpus''.
|
|-
|
''Elaeocarpus preprunifolioides''<ref name=JSEElaeocarpus />
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Foluo Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Elaeocarpus''.
|
|-
|
''Elaeocarpus prerugosus''<ref name=JSEElaeocarpus />
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Foluo Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Elaeocarpus''.
|
|-
|
''Elaeocarpus preserratus''<ref name=JSEElaeocarpus />
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Foluo Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Elaeocarpus''.
|
|-
|
''Elaeocarpus presikkimensis''<ref name=JSEElaeocarpus />
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
Erzitang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Elaeocarpus''.
|
|-
|}

===Poales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Monoporopollenites scabratus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen produced by members of the family [[Biology:Poaceae|Poaceae]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Rhizomatites''<ref name=Circinites />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press
|
Robledo & Anzótegui ''in'' Robledo ''et al.''
|
Miocene-Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cyperaceae|Cyperaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''R. cyperoides''.
|
|-
|}

===Proteales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Banksia microphylla''<ref name=AJBBanksia>{{Cite journal|author1=Raymond J. Carpenter |author2=Lynne A. Milne |year=2020 |title=New species of xeromorphic ''Banksia'' (Proteaceae) foliage and ''Banksia''-like pollen from the late Eocene of Western Australia |journal=Australian Journal of Botany |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=165–178 |doi=10.1071/BT19110 |s2cid=214113278 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Carpenter ''in'' Carpenter & Milne
|
Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Banksia|Banksia]]''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Banksieaeidites|Banksieaeidites zanthus]]''<ref name=AJBBanksia />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Milne ''in'' Carpenter & Milne
|
Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A ''Banksia''-like pollen.
|
|-
|
''Platanus emryi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Indah Badriyyah Huegele |author2=Robert J. Spielbauer |author3=Steven R. Manchester |year=2020 |title=Morphology and systematic affinities of ''Platanus dissecta'' Lesquereux (Platanaceae) from the Miocene of western North America |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=3 |pages=324–341 |doi=10.1086/706453 |s2cid=208566485 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huegele, Spielbauer & Manchester
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Platanus|Platanus]]''.
|
|-
|}

===Ranunculales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Cissampelos defranceschii''<ref name=DelRioetalMenispermaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Del Rio & Su ''in'' Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Middle Eocene
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cissampelos|Cissampelos]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Clematis csabae''<ref name=AP601Hably />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Hably
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Hungary}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Clematis|Clematis]]''.
|
|-
|
''Diploclisia praeaffinis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hui Jia |author2=David K. Ferguson |author3=Bainian Sun |author4=Xiangning Meng |author5=Yifan Hua |year=2020 |title=Phytogeographic implications of a fossil endocarp of ''Diploclisia'' (Menispermaceae) from the Miocene of eastern China |journal=Geological Journal |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=758–767 |doi=10.1002/gj.3867 |s2cid=219907004 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jia ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Menispermaceae|Menispermaceae]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. 
| 
|-
|
''Menispermites bangorensis''<ref name=DelRioetalMenispermaceae>{{Cite journal|author1=Cédric Del Rio |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Ping Liu |author4=Wei‐Yu‐Dong Deng |author5=Teresa E.V. Spicer |author6=Fei‐Xiang Wu |author7=Zhe‐Kun Zhou |author8=Tao Su |year=2020 |title=New Eocene fossil fruits and leaves of Menispermaceae from the central Tibetan Plateau and their biogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=1287–1306 |doi=10.1111/jse.12701 |s2cid=228951072 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang ''in'' Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Middle Eocene
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Menispermites haominae''<ref name=DelRioetalMenispermaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang ''in'' Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Middle Eocene
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Menispermites tibetica''<ref name=DelRioetalMenispermaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang ''in'' Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Middle Eocene
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Paleoorbicarpum''<ref name=Paleoorbicarpum>{{Cite journal|author1=Meng Han |author2=Xin‐Kai Wu |author3=Ming Tu |author4=Tatiana M. Kodrul |author5=Jian‐Hua Jin |year=2020 |title=Diversity of Menispermaceae from the Paleocene and Eocene of South China |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=354–366 |doi=10.1111/jse.12499 |s2cid=199062171 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Han ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Sanshui Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Menispermaceae|Menispermaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. parvum''.
| 
|-
|
''Stephania bangorensis''<ref name=DelRioetalMenispermaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Del Rio & Su ''in'' Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Middle Eocene
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Stephania''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Stephania geniculata''<ref name=Paleoorbicarpum />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Han ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Sanshui Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Stephania|Stephania]]''
|
|-
|
''Stephania ornamenta''<ref name=Paleoorbicarpum />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Han ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
Sanshui Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Stephania|Stephania]]''
|
|-
|
''Stephania shuangxingii''<ref name=DelRioetalMenispermaceae />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Del Rio & Su ''in'' Del Rio ''et al.''
|
Middle Eocene
|
Niubao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''Stephania''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|}

===Rosales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Berhamniphyllum junrongii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhekun Zhou |author2=Tengxiang Wang |author3=Jian Huang |author4=Jia Liu |author5=Weiyudong Deng |author6=Shihu Li |author7=Chenglong Deng |author8=Tao Su |year=2020 |title=Fossil leaves of ''Berhamniphyllum'' (Rhamnaceae) from Markam, Tibet and their biogeographic implications |journal=Science China Earth Sciences |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=224–234 |doi=10.1007/s11430-019-9477-8 |bibcode=2020ScChD..63..224Z |s2cid=211028504 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhou, Wang & Huang ''in'' Zhou ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Markam Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Rhamnaceae|Rhamnaceae]]
| 
|-
|
''Crataegus pentagynoides''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
|
Pliocene
|
 
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Crataegus|Crataegus]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
| 
|-
|
''Hemiptelea kryshtofovichii''<ref name=BZ1051 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Averyanova & Xing
|
[[Earth:Paleogene|Paleogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Ulmaceae|Ulmaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Scabrastephanoporites''<ref name=Scabrastephanoporites />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Smith ''et al.''
|
Eocene (Ypresian)
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
Pollen of an [[Biology:Eudicots|eudicot]], probably a member of the family [[Biology:Ulmaceae|Ulmaceae]] or [[Biology:Cannabaceae|Cannabaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''S. variabilis''.
|
|-
|}

===Sapindales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Acer dombeyopsis''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A maple. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Acer viburnoides''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A maple. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Acer vitiforme''<ref name=PPKvaceketal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk
|
Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A maple. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
|
|-
|
''Brosipollis reticulatus''<ref name=Scabrastephanoporites />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Smith ''et al.''
|
Eocene (Ypresian)
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant, probably a member of the family [[Biology:Burseraceae|Burseraceae]].
|
|-
|
''Choerospondias fujianensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zixi Wang |author2=Fabiany Herrera |author3=Junwu Shu |author4=Suxin Yin |author5=Gongle Shi |year=2020 |title=A new ''Choerospondias'' (Anacardiaceae) endocarp from the middle Miocene of Southeast China and its paleoecological implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=283 |pages=Article 104312 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104312 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304312W |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Wang ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Choerospondias|Choerospondias]]''.
| 
|-
| ''Llanodelacruzoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Oris Rodríguez-Reyes |author2=Emilio Estrada-Ruiz |author3=Peter Gasson |year=2020 |title=Evidence of large Anacardiaceae trees from the Oligocene–early Miocene Santiago Formation, Azuero, Panama |journal=Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana |volume=72 |issue=2 |pages=Article A300719 |doi=10.18268/BSGM2020v72n2a300719 |url=http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/bsgm/index.php/component/content/article/381-sitio/resumenes/cuarta-epoca/7206/2212-7202-A300719_Rodriguez-Reyes |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov
| 
| Rodríguez-Reyes, Estrada-Ruiz & Gasson
| Oligocene–Miocene
| Santiago Formation
| {{Flag|Panama}}
| A member of the family [[Biology:Anacardiaceae|Anacardiaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''L. sandovalii''.
|
|-
|
''Manchestercarpa''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Brian A. Atkinson |year=2020 |title=Fossil evidence for a Cretaceous rise of the mahogany family |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=139–147 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1416 |pmid=31903551 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Atkinson
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Meliaceae|Meliaceae]] described on the basis of a fossil fruit. Genus includes new species ''M. vancouverensis''.
|
|-
|
''Parametopioxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=M. Jimena Franco |author2=Eliana Moya |author3=Mariana Brea |author4=Camila Martínez Martínez |year=2020 |title=''Astroniumxylon'', ''Schinopsixylon'', and ''Parametopioxylon'' n. gen. fossil woods from upper Cenozoic of Argentina: taxonomic revision, new taxon and new records |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=185–201 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2019.97 |bibcode=2020JPal...94..185F |s2cid=212737596 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/4961184 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Franco ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
[[Earth:Ituzaingó Formation|Ituzaingó Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Anacardiaceae|Anacardiaceae]] described on the basis of [[Biology:Fossil wood|fossil wood]]. Genus includes new species ''P. crystalliferum''.
| 
|-
|
''Psilastephanocolporites hammenii''<ref name=Scabrastephanoporites />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Smith ''et al.''
|
Eocene (Ypresian)
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant, probably a member of the family [[Biology:Meliaceae|Meliaceae]]
|
|-
|
''Quinquala''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Steven R. Manchester |author2=Kory A. Disney |author3=Kasey K. Pham |year=2020 |title=Winged fruits of rutaceous affinity from the Eocene of western North America |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=211–216 |doi=10.37520/fi.2020.018 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Manchester & Disney ''in'' Manchester, Disney & Pham
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Clarno Formation<br>Tepee Trail Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Oregon}}<br>{{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A fossil fruit with affinities with the [[Biology:Rutaceae|Rutaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''Q. obovata''.
|
|-
|
''Rousea cavitata''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|}

===Saxifragales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Corylopsis grisea''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zack J. Quirk |author2=Elizabeth J. Hermsen |year=2020 |title=Neogene ''Corylopsis'' Seeds from Eastern Tennessee |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=611–621 |doi=10.1111/jse.12571 |s2cid=214264053 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Quirk & Hermsen
|
Early Pliocene
|
Gray Fossil Site
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Tennessee}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Corylopsis|Corylopsis]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Itea polyneura''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yi-Min Tian |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Tao Su |author4=Shi-Tao Zhang |year=2020 |title=Early Oligocene ''Itea'' (Iteaceae) leaves from East Asia and their biogeographic implications |journal=Plant Diversity |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=142–151 |doi=10.1016/j.pld.2020.09.006 |pmid=33997547 |pmc=8103422 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Huang & Tian ''in'' Tian ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
Huazhige Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Itea (plant)|Itea]]''.
|
|-
|
''Protoaltingia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alex R. Scharfstein |author2=Ruth A. Stockey |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2020 |title=Evolution and phylogeny of Altingiaceae: anatomically preserved infructescences from Late Cretaceous deposits of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=4 |pages=452–463 |doi=10.1086/707107 |s2cid=216212606 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Scharfstein, Stockey & Rothwell
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Altingiaceae|Altingiaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. comoxense''.
|
|-
|}

===Solanales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Physalis hunickenii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Rocío Deanna |author2=Peter Wilf |author3=Maria A. Gandolfo |year=2020 |title=New physaloid fruit‐fossil species from early Eocene South America |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=12 |pages=1749–1762 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1565 |pmid=33247843 |s2cid=227192001 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Deanna, Wilf & Gandolfo
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Laguna del Hunco Formation|Laguna del Hunco Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Physalis|Physalis]]''.
|
|-
|}

===Trochodendrales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Eotrochion''<ref name=Eotrochion>{{Cite journal|author1=Steven R. Manchester |author2=Zlatko Kvaček |author3=Walter S. Judd |year=2020 |title=Morphology, anatomy, phylogenetics and distribution of fossil and extant Trochodendraceae in the Northern Hemisphere |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=195 |issue=3 |pages=467–484 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/boaa046 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Manchester, Kvaček & Judd
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Trochodendraceae|Trochodendraceae]]. Genus includes new species ''E. polystylum''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Paraconcavistylon|Paraconcavistylon]]''<ref name=Eotrochion />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Manchester, Kvaček & Judd
|
[[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]]
|
[[Earth:Klondike Mountain Formation|Klondike Mountain Formation]] 
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Washington}})
|
A Trochodendraceae; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Concavistylon|Concavistylon]]" wehrii'' Manchester ''et al.'' (2018). Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Trochodendron infernense''<ref name=Eotrochion />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Manchester, Kvaček & Judd
|
Paleocene
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Trochodendron|Trochodendron]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|}

===Vitales===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Yua jiangxiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Wen-Long He |author2=Xiao-Jing Wang |year=2020 |title=A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=757–769  |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.12.006 |s2cid=234387044 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
He & Wang
|
Miocene
|
Toupi Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Yua (plant)|Yua]]''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|}

===Other angiosperms===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Aextoxicoxylon kawasianus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ezequiel Ignacio Vera |author2=Valeria S. Perez Loinaze |author3=Magdalena Llorens |author4=Mauro Gabriel Passalia |year=2020 |title=The fossil genus ''Aextoxicoxylon'' (Magnoliopsida) in the Upper Cretaceous Puntudo Chico Formation, Chubut Province, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=107 |pages=Article 104315 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104315 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10704315V |s2cid=210254812 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Vera ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]]
|
Puntudo Chico Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A fossil [[Biology:Dicotyledon|dicot]] wood
|
|-
|
''Atlantocarpus''<ref name=Atlantocarpus>{{cite journal |author1=Else Marie Friis |author2=Peter R. Crane |author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |year=2020 |title=Multiparted, apocarpous flowers from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=279–296 |doi=10.37520/fi.2020.023 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis, Crane & Pedersen
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
Potomac Group
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}<br>{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Virginia}})
|
An early flowering plant, possibly related to the group [[Biology:Austrobaileyales|Austrobaileyales]]. Genus includes new species ''A. virginiensis''.
|
|-
|
''Carpolithes gergoei''<ref name=AP601Hably />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Hably & Erdei ''in'' Hably
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Hungary}}
|
A fossil fruit of a flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
|
|-
|
''Catanthus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Else Marie Friis |author2=Peter R. Crane |author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |year=2020 |title=''Catanthus'', An Extinct Magnoliid Flower From The Early Cretaceous Of Portugal |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=182 |issue=1 |pages=28–45 |doi=10.1086/711081 |s2cid=228939581 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press
|
Friis, Crane & Pedersen
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
An early flowering plant. Genus includes new species ''C. dolichostemon''.
|
|-
|
''Cavilignum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Caroline Siegert |author2=Elizabeth J. Hermsen |year=2020 |title=''Cavilignum pratchettii'' gen. et sp. nov., a novel type of fossil endocarp with open locules from the Neogene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=275 |pages=Article 104174 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104174 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27504174S |s2cid=213393197 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Siegert & Hermsen
|
Early Pliocene
|
Gray Fossil Site
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Tennessee}})
|
A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil [[Biology:Endocarp|endocarp]]s. Genus includes new species ''C. pratchettii''.
|
|-
|
''Chainandra''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |year=2020 |title=''Chainandra zeugostylus'' gen. et sp. nov., a mid-Cretaceous amber fossil with sagittate anthers opening widely at maturity |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=367–372 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i2.1015 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar & Chambers
|
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
|
Burmese amber
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
Genus includes new species ''C. zeugostylus''.
|
|-
|
''Cichoreacidites? flammulatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Crotonoidaepollenites echinatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Cyathitepala''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |year=2020 |title=''Cyathitepala papillosa'' gen. et sp. nov., a mid-Cretaceous fossil flower from Myanmar amber with valvate anthers |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=351–358 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i2.1013 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar & Chambers
|
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
|
Burmese amber
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
Genus includes new species ''C. papillosa''.
|
|-
|
''Dasykothon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |year=2020 |title=''Dasykothon leptomiscus'' gen. et sp. nov., a fossil flower of possible Lauralean affinity from Myanmar amber |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=65–71 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i1.897 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar & Chambers
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a member of [[Biology:Laurales|Laurales]]. Genus includes new species ''D. leptomiscus''.
|
|-
|
''Dinganthus''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Xue-Die Liu |author2=José Bienvenido Diez |author3=Yong Fan |author4=Zhong-Jian Liu |author5=Xin Wang |year=2020 |title=A unique flower in Miocene amber sheds new light on the evolution of flowers |journal=Palaeoentomology |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=423–432 |doi=10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.4.15 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
[[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]]
|
{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
|
A [[Biology:Eudicots|eudicot]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''D. pentamera''.
|
|-
|
''Echistephanoporites annulatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Eofructus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gang Han |author2=Xin Wang |year=2020 |title=A New Infructescence of Angiosperms from the Early Cretaceous of China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=94 |issue=5 |pages=1711–1713 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.14591 |bibcode=2020AcGlS..94.1711H |s2cid=225166235 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2020endzxb05026&flag=1 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Han & Wang
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An [[Biology:Infructescence|infructescence]] including a central axis and five fruits resembling ''Liaoningfructus''. Genus includes new species ''E. liutiaogouensis''.
|
|-
|
''Foveotricolporites crassus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Inaperturopollenites microechinatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Ladakhipollenites carmoi''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Lambertiflora''<ref name=Atlantocarpus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis, Crane & Pedersen
|
Early Cretaceous (Albian)
|
Potomac Group
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Virginia}})
|
An early flowering plant, possibly related to the group Austrobaileyales. Genus includes new species ''L. elegans''.
|
|-
|
''Malvacipolloides diversus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Malvacipolloides echibaculatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Malvacipolloides romeroae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Menatanthus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Dieter Uhl |author2=Khum N. Paudayal |author3=Sophie Hervet |author4=Haytham El Atfy |year=2020 |title=''Menatanthus mosbruggeri'' gen. nov. et sp. nov. – A flower with in situ pollen tetrads from the Paleocene maar lake of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France) |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=51–58 |doi=10.1007/s12549-020-00453-0 |s2cid=226960216 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Uhl, Paudayal & El Atfy ''in'' Uhl ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] ([[Earth:Thanetian|Thanetian]])
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A eudicot of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''M mosbruggeri''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Mugideiriflora''<ref name=Atlantocarpus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Friis, Crane & Pedersen
|
Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]-early Albian)
|
Almargem Formation
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
An early flowering plant, possibly related to the group Austrobaileyales. Genus includes new species ''M. portugallica''.
|
|-
|
''Phantophlebia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |year=2020 |title=''Phantophlebia dicycla'' gen. et sp. nov., a five-merous fossil flower in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=73–80 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i1.898 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Poinar & Chambers
|
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
|
Burmese amber
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly related to myrsinoid members of the family [[Biology:Primulaceae|Primulaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. dicycla''.
|
|-
|
''Platanites willigeri''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Adam T. Halamski |author2=Jiří Kvaček |author3=Marcela Svobodová |author4=Ewa Durska |author5=Zuzana Heřmanová |year=2020 |title=Late Cretaceous mega-, meso-, and microfloras from Lower Silesia |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=811–878 |doi=10.4202/app.00744.2020 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Halamski & Kvaček ''in'' Halamski ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Santonian|Santonian]])
|
Czerna Formation
|
{{Flag|Poland}}
|
[[Biology:Glossary of leaf morphology#trifoliolate|Trifoliolate]] platanoid leaves.
|
|-
|
''Psilaperiporites delicatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Psilaperiporites lunaris''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Ranunculacidites reticulatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Rasenganus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lida Xing |author2=Lei Gu |year=2020 |title=The possible earliest epizoochorous fruit preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=114 |pages=Article 104498 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104498 |bibcode=2020CrRes.11404498X |s2cid=219439641 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Xing & Gu
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A possible [[Earth:Seed dispersal#By animals|epizoochorous]] fruit. Genus includes new species ''R. auricularus''.
|
|-
|
''Retibrevitricolpites microreticulatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retibrevitricolporites costaporus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retibrevitricolporites? toigoae''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retipollenites solimoensis''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Retitriporites crassoreticulatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Rhoipites alfredii''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
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''Singpuria''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Deepak D. Ramteke |author2=Steven R. Manchester |author3=Vaishali D. Nagrale |author4=Selena Y. Smith |year=2020 |title=''Singpuria'', a new genus of Eudicot flower from the latest Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=323–332 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ramteke, Manchester & Nagrale ''in'' Ramteke ''et al.''
|
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
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Deccan Intertrappean Beds
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{{Flag|India}}
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A member of [[Biology:Pentapetalae|Pentapetalae]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''S. kapgatei''.
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''Sinoherba''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhong-Jian Liu |author2=Li-Jun Chen |author3=Xin Wang |year=2020 |title=A whole-plant monocot from the Lower Cretaceous |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=169–175 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.03.008 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Liu & Wang ''in'' Liu, Chen & Wang
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Barremian|Barremian]]–[[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
|
[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An early [[Biology:Monocotyledon|monocot]]. Genus includes new species ''S. ningchengensis''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
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''Varifructus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xuedie Liu |author2=Liang Ma |author3=Bin Liu |author4=Zhong-Jian Liu |author5=Xin Wang |year=2020 |title=A novel angiosperm including various parts from the Early Cretaceous sheds new light on flower evolution |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=11 |pages= 2706–2714|doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1825411 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An early flowering plant. Genus includes new species ''V. lingyuanensis''.
|
|-
|
''Wireroadia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiaoqing Zhang |author2=Yongdong Wang |author3=David L. Dilcher |author4=Steven R. Manchester |year=2020 |title=''Wireroadia'', a new genus of winged fruit from the Cretaceous of Alabama and New England, USA |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=9 |pages=898–910 |doi=10.1086/710492 |s2cid=224836733 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhang ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]] to [[Earth:Santonian|Santonian]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Alabama}}<br>{{Flag|Massachusetts}}<br>{{Flag|New Jersey}}<br>{{Flag|New York}})
|
A winged fruit of a eudicot of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''W. viccallii'', as well as ''W. major'' (Hollick).
|
|-
|}

==Pinales==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Agathis ledongensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexei A. Oskolski |author2=Luliang Huang |author3=Anna V. Stepanova |author4=Jianhua Jin |year=2020 |title=Araucarioid wood from the late Oligocene–early Miocene of Hainan Island: first fossil evidence for the genus ''Agathis'' in the Northern Hemisphere |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=133 |issue=2 |pages=157–173 |doi=10.1007/s10265-019-01165-z |pmid=31915952 |bibcode=2020JPlR..133..157O |s2cid=210088380 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Oskolski ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]–early Miocene
|
Qiutangling Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Agathis|Agathis]]''
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Agathoxylon|Agathoxylon cozzoi]]''<ref name=JPTronquimalalGroup>{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia C. Gnaedinger |author2=Ana María Zavattieri |year=2020 |title=Coniferous woods from the Upper Triassic of southwestern Gondwana, Tronquimalal Group, Neuquén Basin, Mendoza Province, Argentina |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=387–416 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2020.1 |bibcode=2020JPal...94..387G |s2cid=216505978 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gnaedinger & Zavattieri
|
[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]]
|
Chihuido Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
| 
|
|-
|
''Araucaria cuneoi''<ref name=PABAraucaria>{{Cite journal|author1=Robert Noll |author2=Lutz Kunzmann |year=2020 |title=Diversity in fossil ''Araucaria'' Juss.: new species from the Middle Jurassic Jaramillo Petrified Forests in Santa Cruz province, Argentina |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung B |volume=301 |issue=1–3 |pages=3–75 |doi=10.1127/palb/2020/0070 |bibcode=2020PalAB.301....3N |s2cid=224978809 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Noll & Kunzmann
|
Middle Jurassic
|
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Araucaria|Araucaria]]''.
|
|-
|
''Araucaria famii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ruth A. Stockey |author2=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2020 |title=Diversification of crown group ''Araucaria'': the role of ''Araucaria famii'' sp. nov. in the mid‐Cretaceous (Campanian) radiation of Araucariaceae in the Northern Hemisphere |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=7 |pages=1072–1093 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1505 |pmid=32705687 |s2cid=225568264 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Stockey & Rothwell
|
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)
|
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
A species of ''Araucaria''.
|
|-
|
''Araucaria fildesensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gongle Shi |author2=Haomin Li |author3=Andrew B. Leslie |author4=Zhiyan Zhou |year=2020 |title=''Araucaria'' bract-scale complex and associated foliage from the early-middle Eocene of Antarctica and their implications for Gondwanan biogeography |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=164–173 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2018.1472255 |bibcode=2020HBio...32..164S |s2cid=89662557 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Shi ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Fossil Hill Formation
|
[[Earth:Antarctica|Antarctica]]<br>(King George Island)
|
A species of ''Araucaria''
|
|-
|
''Araucaria huncoensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gabriella Rossetto‐Harris |author2=Peter Wilf |author3=Ignacio H. Escapa |author4=Ana Andruchow‐Colombo |year=2020 |title=Eocene ''Araucaria'' Sect. ''Eutacta'' from Patagonia and floristic turnover during the initial isolation of South America |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=5 |pages=806–832 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1467 |pmid=32388874 |s2cid=218582967 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rossetto‐Harris ''in'' Rossetto‐Harris ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
[[Earth:Laguna del Hunco Formation|Laguna del Hunco Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''Araucaria''.
|
|-
|
''Araucaria stockeyana''<ref name=PABAraucaria />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Noll & Kunzmann
|
Middle Jurassic
|
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''Araucaria''.
|
|-
|''[[Biology:Araucarites|Araucarites pachacuteci]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=L.C.A. Martínez |author2=E. Pacheco Huacallo |author3=R.R. Pujana |author4=H. Padula |year=2020 |title=A new megaflora (leaves and reproductive structures) from the Huancané Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Peru |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=110 |pages=Article number 104426 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104426 |bibcode=2020CrRes.11004426M |s2cid=213340202 }}</ref>
|Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Martínez ''in'' Martínez ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Berriasian|Berriasian]]–[[Earth:Valanginian|Valanginian]])
|
Huancané Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Araucariaceae|Araucariaceae]]
|
|-
|''Brachyoxylon zhouii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zikun Jiang |author2=Hao Wu |author3=Ning Tian |author4=Yongdong Wang |author5=Aowei Xie |year=2020 |title=A new species of conifer wood ''Brachyoxylon'' from the Cretaceous of Eastern China and its paleoclimate significance |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=10 |pages=1989–1995 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1755282 |s2cid=219088846 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Jiang ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
Guantou Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A conifer wood. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
| 
|-
| ''[[Biology:Brachyphyllum|Brachyphyllum sattlerae]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Maria Edenilce P. Batista |author2=Lutz Kunzman |author3=Artur A. A. Sá |author4=Antônio Álamo F. Saraiva |author5=Maria Iracema B. Loiola |year=2020 |title=A new species of ''Brachyphyllum'' from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Brazil |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=57 |issue=6 |pages=519–533 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.23.06.2020.3333 |s2cid=226545919 }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Batista ''et al.''
| [[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
| [[Earth:Crato Formation|Crato Formation]]
| {{Flag|Brazil}}
| A member of the family [[Biology:Pinidae|Pinidae]].
|
|-
|
''Callialastrobus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jiří Kvaček |author2=Mário Miguel Mendes |year=2020 |title=''Callialastrobus sousai'' gen. et sp. nov., a new araucariaceous pollen cone from the Early Cretaceous of Catefica (Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal) bearing ''Callialasporites'' and ''Araucariacites'' pollen |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=283 |pages=Article 104313 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104313 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304313K |s2cid=225290387 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press
|
Kvaček & Mendes
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]–early [[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
Lusitanian Basin
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
A pollen cone of a member of [[Biology:Araucariaceae|Araucariaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. sousai''.
|
|-
|
''Cedrus anatolica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Ünal Akkemik |year=2020 |title=A new fossil ''Cedrus'' species from the early Miocene of northwestern Turkey and its possible affinities |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=746–756 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.12.003 |s2cid=230541679 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Akkemik
|
Early Miocene
|
Hançili Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cedrus|Cedrus]]''.  Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Circoporoxylon tibetense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Guoqing Xia |author2=Ning Tian |author3=Marc Philippe |author4=Haisheng Yi |author5=Chihua Wu |author6=Gaojie Li |author7=Zhiqiang Shi |year=2020 |title=Oldest Jurassic wood with Gondwanan affinities from the Middle Jurassic of Tibetan Plateau and its paleoclimatological and paleoecological significance |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=281 |pages=Article 104283 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104283 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104283X |s2cid=224930021 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Xia ''et al.''
|
Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
|
Xiali Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
Possibly a member of the family [[Biology:Podocarpaceae|Podocarpaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Comoxostrobus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ruth A. Stockey |author2=Gar W. Rothwell |author3=Brian A. Atkinson |year=2020 |title=Late Cretaceous diversification of cupressaceous conifers: a taiwanioid seed cone from the Eden Main, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=5 |pages=529–541 |doi=10.1086/708383 |s2cid=218924040 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Stockey, Rothwell & Atkinson
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] (early [[Earth:Coniacian|Coniacian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|British Columbia}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cupressaceae|Cupressaceae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Taiwanioideae|Taiwanioideae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. rossii''.
|
|-
|
''Cupressinoxylon klimovii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Nadezhda I. Blokhina |year=2020 |title=''Cupressinoxylon klimovii'' Blokhina, nom. nov. ‒ a new species name replacing ''Cupressinoxylon biotoides'' Blokhina, 1989 (Cupressaceae) |journal=Botanica Pacifica |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=196 |doi=10.17581/bp.2020.09218 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Nom. nov
|
Valid
|
Blokhina
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of the family Cupressaceae; a replacement name for ''Cupressinoxylon biotoides'' Blokhina (1989).
|
|-
|
''Cupressinoxylon llantenesense''<ref name=JPTronquimalalGroup />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gnaedinger & Zavattieri
|
[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]]
|
Llantenes Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
| 
| 
|-
| ''Cupressinoxylon manuelii''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=César Ríos-Santos |author2=Sergio R.S. Cevallos-Ferriz |author3=R.R. Pujana |year=2020 |title=Cupressaceous woods in the Upper Cretaceous Cabullona Group in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=104 |pages=Article 102756 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102756 |bibcode=2020JSAES.10402756R |s2cid=224884535 }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| In press
| Ríos-Santos, Cevallos-Ferriz & Pujana
| Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)
| [[Earth:Cabullona Group|Cabullona Group]]
| {{Flag|Mexico}}
|
|
|-
|
''Ductoagathoxylon wangii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xu-Dong Gou |author2=Sui Wan |author3=Fu-Guang Zhao |author4=Xin-Shi Cheng |author5=Hai-Bo Wei |author6=Yun Guo |author7=Shi-Ling Yang |author8=Zhuo Feng |year=2020 |title=A new conifer stem, ''Ductoagathoxylon wangii'' from the Middle Jurassic of the Santanghu Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=285 |pages=Article 104357 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104357 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Gou & Feng ''in'' Gou ''et al.''
|
Middle Jurassic
|
Xishanyao Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A conifer stem.
|
|-
|
''Friisia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mário Miguel Mendes |author2=Jiří Kvaček |year=2020 |title=''Friisia lusitanica'' gen. et sp. nov., a new podocarpaceous ovuliferous cone from the Lower Cretaceous of Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=108 |pages=Article 104352 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104352 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10804352M |s2cid=212921077 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
In press
|
Mendes & Kvaček
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]] – early [[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
|
Lusitanian Basin
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
An ovuliferous cone of a member of the family [[Biology:Podocarpaceae|Podocarpaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''F. lusitanica''.
| 
|-
|
''Juniperoxylon acarcaea''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Ünal Akkemik |year=2020 |title=A new species of ''Juniperoxylon'' from the early Miocene of northwestern Turkey |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=15–26 |doi=10.35463/j.apr.2021.01.02 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Akkemik
|
Early Miocene
|
Hançili Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of the family Cupressaceae.
|
|-
|
''Lesbosoxylon kemaliyensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ünal Akkemik |author2=Dimitra Mantzouka |author3=Demet Kıran Yıldırım |year=2020 |title=The first report of ''Lesbosoxylon'' Süss & Velitzelos from the early-middle Miocene of eastern Anatolia |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=42 |issue=23 |pages=427–441 |doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a23 |s2cid=222210783 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/42/23 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Akkemik & Mantzouka ''in'' Akkemik, Mantzouka & Kıran Yıldırım 
|
Miocene
|
Divriği Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Pinaceae|Pinaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Marskea cuspidata''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrey O. Frolov |author2=Irina M. Mashchuk |year=2020 |title=Discovery of isolated leaves of ''Marskea'' (Taxaceae) in the Middle Jurassic sediments of Irkutsk Basin (East Siberia, Russia) |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=449 |issue=2 |pages=164–172 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.449.2.4 |s2cid=225702863 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Frolov & Mashchuk
|
Middle Jurassic
|
Prisayan Formation
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Taxaceae|Taxaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Mukawastrobus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ruth A. Stockey |author2=Harufumi Nishida |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2020 |title=Evolutionary diversification of taiwanioid conifers: evidence from a new Upper Cretaceous seed cone from Hokkaido, Japan |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=133 |issue=5 |pages=681–692 |doi=10.1007/s10265-020-01214-y |pmid=32686035 |pmc=7429551 |bibcode=2020JPlR..133..681S }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Stockey, Nishida & Rothwell
|
Late Cretaceous (late [[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]]—early [[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cupressaceae|Cupressaceae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Taiwanioideae|Taiwanioideae]]. Genus includes new species ''M. satoi''.
|
|-
|
''Piceoxylon yumeniense''<ref name=PalaeoworldZhouetal>{{Cite journal|author1=Ling-Qi Zhou |author2=Cuo Peng |author3=Peng Deng |author4=Xiao-Qin Zhang |author5=Guo-Lin Yang |author6=Wen-Xiu Ren |author7=Jun Wang |author8=Xiao-Qiang Li |author9=Shi-Bo Tuo |author10=Bing Guo |year=2020 |title=New records of Early Cretaceous petrified wood in Yumen, northwestern Gansu Province, China and their palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=503–514 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.08.002 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhou, Peng, Deng, Zhang & Yang ''in'' Zhou ''et al.''
|
Early Cretaceous
|
[[Earth:Xiagou Formation|Xiagou Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
Fossil wood of a member of the family [[Biology:Pinaceae|Pinaceae]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Pinuxylon selmeierianum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Martina Dolezych |author2=Lutz Reinhardt |year=2020 |title=First evidence for the conifer ''Pinus'', as ''Pinuxylon selmeierianum'' sp. nov., during the Paleogene on Wootton Peninsula, northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=25–39 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2018-0163 |bibcode=2020CaJES..57...25D |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Dolezych & Reinhardt
|
[[Earth:Paleogene|Paleogene]]
|
Eureka Sound Group
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Nunavut}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Pinaceae|Pinaceae]] described on the basis of [[Biology:Fossil wood|fossil wood]]
| 
|-
|
''Protophyllocladoxylon chijinense''<ref name=PalaeoworldZhouetal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhou, Peng, Deng, Zhang & Yang ''in'' Zhou ''et al.''
|
Early Cretaceous
|
Xiagou Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|
''Tsuga asiatica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Meng-Xiao Wu |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Tao Su |author4=Qin Leng |author5=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2020 |title=''Tsuga'' seed cones from the late Paleogene of southwestern China and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=617–628 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.005 |s2cid=199885815 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu & Zhou ''in'' Wu ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Paleogene|Paleogene]]
| 
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Tsuga|Tsuga]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
| 
|-
|}

==Other seed plants==
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Amyelon turpanense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao Shi |author2=Jianxin Yu |author3=Yuewu Sun |year=2020 |title=Tyloses in the Lopingian cordaitalean root from Xinjiang, Northwest China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=273 |pages=Article 104134 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104134 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27304134S |s2cid=210278581 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Shi, Yu & Sun
|
Permian ([[Earth:Lopingian|Lopingian]])
|
Wutonggou
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A root of a member of [[Biology:Cordaitales|Cordaitales]]
|
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''Androstrobus obovatus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Josefina Bodnar |author2=Eduardo M. Morel |author3=Eliana P. Coturel |author4=Daniel G. Ganuza |year=2020 |title=New plant fossil records and biostratigraphic analysis from the Uspallata Group (Late Triassic) at Cacheuta Hill, Cuyo Basin, west-central Argentina |journal=Geobios |volume=60 |pages= 3–27|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.04.002 |bibcode=2020Geobi..60....3B |s2cid=219762016 }}</ref>
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In press
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Bodnar ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]]
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Potrerillos Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A member of [[Biology:Cycadales|Cycadales]].
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''Araripestrobus''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Leyla J. Seyfullah |author2=Emily A. Roberts |author3=Alexander R. Schmidt |author4=Eugenio Ragazzi |author5=Ken B. Anderson |author6=Daniel Rodrigues do Nascimento Jr. |author7=Wellington Ferreira da Silva Filho |author8=Lutz Kunzmann |year=2020 |title=Revealing the diversity of amber source plants from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=107 |doi=10.1186/s12862-020-01651-2 |pmid=32819273 |pmc=7439571 |bibcode=2020BMCEE..20..107S |s2cid=221183260 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Seyfullah, Roberts, Schmidt & Kunzmann ''in'' Seyfullah ''et al.''
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Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]-[[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
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[[Earth:Crato Formation|Crato]]
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A seed plant belonging to the group [[Biology:Erdtmanithecales|Erdtmanithecales]]. Genus includes new species ''A. resinosus''.
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''Archaeopetalanthus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Serge V. Naugolnykh |year=2020 |title=''Archaeopetalanthus progressus'' gen. et sp. nov. – a new representative of the vojnovskyopsid gymnosperms from the Carboniferous of Siberia (Russia) |journal=Wulfenia |volume=27 |pages=97–113 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345140733 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Naugolnykh
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]]
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Listvjanskaya
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{{Flag|Russia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Pinophyta|Pinophyta]] belonging to the group Vojnovskyales. Genus includes new species ''A. progressus''.
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''Battenispermum''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mário Miguel Mendes |author2=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |author3=Else Marie Friis |year=2020 |title=''Battenispermum hirsutum'' gen. et sp. nov., a new Early Cretaceous seed from Portugal with chlamydospermous organisation |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=109 |pages=Article 104376 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104376 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10904376M |s2cid=213898064 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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In press
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Mendes, Pedersen & Friis
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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{{Flag|Portugal}}
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A seed plant belonging to the informal grouping [[Biology:Bennettitales|Bennettitales]]-[[Biology:Erdtmanithecales|Erdtmanithecales]]-[[Biology:Gnetales|Gnetales]]. Genus includes new species ''B. hirsutum''.
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''Carpolithus volantus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=María A. Gómez |author2=Gabriela G. Puebla |author3=Mercedes B. Prámparo |author4=Andrea B. Arcucci |year=2020 |title=Fossil seeds from the La Cantera Formation, Early Cretaceous, San Luis Province, Argentina |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=181–198 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0008 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/145016 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Gómez ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
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[[Earth:La Cantera Formation|La Cantera Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A fossil seed, possibly produced by a member of [[Biology:Gnetales|Gnetales]].
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''Ductolobatopitys''<ref name=Ductolobatopitys>{{Cite journal|author1=Domingas Maria da Conceição |author2=Luiz Saturnino de Andrade |author3=Rodrigo Neregato |author4=Roberto Iannuzzi |author5=Alexandra Crisafulli |author6=Juan Carlos Cisneros |year=2020 |title=New petrified gymnosperms from the Permian of Maranhão (Pedra de Fogo Formation), Brazil: ''Ductolobatopitys'' nov. gen. and ''Kaokoxylon'' |journal=Geobios |volume=60 |pages=47–59 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.04.003 |bibcode=2020Geobi..60...47C |s2cid=219737764 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Conceição & Crisafulli ''in'' Conceição ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Cisuralian|Cisuralian]])
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Pedra de Fogo Formation
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A [[Biology:Gymnosperm|gymnosperm]] described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species ''D. mussae''.
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''Filigigantopteris''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Wei-Ming Zhou |author2=Bi-Yun Chen |author3=Wei Sun |author4=Xue-Zhi He |author5=Jason Hilton |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=A new gigantopterid genus from the late Permian of the Daha Coalfield, Tibetan Plateau and its implication on plant-insect interactions |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=12 |pages=3228–3240 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1860033 |s2cid=234390424 |url=https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/a-new-gigantopterid-genus-from-the-late-permian-of-the-daha-coalfield-tibetan-plateau-and-its-implication-on-plantinsect-interactions(6522a667-5362-4c9c-bab2-e7eadfa592e6).html }}</ref>
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Gen. et 2 sp. nov
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In press
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Zhou ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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Nayixiong Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Gigantopterid|gigantopterid]]. Genus includes new species ''F. asymmetrica'' and ''F. dahaia''.
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''Ginkgo pediculata''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Sheng-Hui Deng |author2=Xiao-Ju Yang |author3=Zhi-Yan Zhou |year=2020 |title=A new ''Ginkgo'' from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning, Northeast China and its evolutionary implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=283 |pages=Article 104315 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104315 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304315D |s2cid=225031049 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Deng, Yang & Zhou
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Early Cretaceous
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Ginkgo|Ginkgo]]''.
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''Jianchangia''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yong Yang |last2=Yingwei Wang |last3=David Kay Ferguson |year=2020 |title=A new macrofossil ephedroid plant with unusual bract morphology from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of northeastern China |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 19 |doi=10.1186/s12862-019-1569-y |pmid=32019502|pmc=7001366 |bibcode=2020BMCEE..20...19Y |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Yang, Wang & Ferguson
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]])
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[[Earth:Jiufotang Formation|Jiufotang Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Ephedraceae|Ephedraceae]]. Genus includes new species ''J. verticillata''.
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''Johniphyllum''<ref name=Johniphyllum>{{Cite journal|author1=Cindy V. Looy |author2=Ivo A. P. Duijnstee |year=2020 |title=Voltzian conifers of the South Ash Pasture flora (Guadalupian, Texas): ''Johniphyllum multinerve'' gen. et sp. nov., ''Pseudovoltzia sapflorensis'' sp. nov., and ''Wantus acaulis'' gen. et sp. nov. |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=3 |pages=363–385 |doi=10.1086/706853 |s2cid=208592093 }}</ref>
|Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Looy & Duijnstee
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Guadalupian|Guadalupian]])
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Texas}})
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A member of [[Biology:Voltziales|Voltziales]]. Genus includes new species ''J. multinerve''.
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''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=2020 |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 |bibcode=2020Alch...44...64A |s2cid=199109037 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Anderson ''in'' Anderson ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] (possibly [[Earth:Lopingian|Lopingian]])
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Um Irna Formation
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{{Flag|Jordan}}
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A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]]. A new genus for ''"[[Biology:Dicroidium|Dicroidium]]" irnensis'' Abu Hamad ''et al.'' (2008); genus also includes ''"Dicroidium" jordanensis'' Abu Hamad ''et al.'' (2008), ''"Dicroidium" robustum'' Kerp & Vörding (2008) and ''"Dicroidium" bandelii'' Abu Hamad et al. (2017).
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''[[Biology:Kaokoxylon|Kaokoxylon brasiliensis]]''<ref name=Ductolobatopitys />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Conceição, Neregato & Iannuzzi ''in'' Conceição ''et al.''
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Permian (Cisuralian)
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Pedra de Fogo Formation
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A conifer described on the basis of fossil wood.
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''[[Biology:Nilssonia (plant)|Nilssonia mirovanae]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jana Čepičková |author2=Jiří Kvaček |year=2020 |title=Two cycads ''Nilssonia mirovanae'' sp. nov. and ''Pseudoctenis babinensis'' J.Kvaček from the Cenomanian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (the Czech Republic) as indicators of water stress in the palaeoenvironment |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=315–324 |doi=10.37520/fi.2020.025 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Čepičková & Kvaček
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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Peruc-Korycany Formation
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{{Flag|Czech Republic}}
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A cycad.
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''Novaiorquepitys''<ref name=Novaiorquepitys>{{Cite journal|author1=Domingas Maria da Conceição |author2=Alexandra Crisafulli |author3=Roberto Iannuzzi |author4=Rodrigo Neregato |author5=Juan Carlos Cisneros |author6=Luiz Saturnino de Andrade |year=2020 |title=New petrified gymnosperms from the Permian of Maranhão (Pedra de Fogo Formation), Brazil: ''Novaiorquepitys'' and ''Yvyrapitys'' |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=276 |pages=Article 104177 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104177 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27604177D |s2cid=212954578 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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In press
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Conceição & Crisafulli ''in'' Conceição ''et al.''
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Permian ([[Earth:Cisuralian|Cisuralian]])
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Pedra de Fogo Formation
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A gymnosperm stem. Genus includes new species ''N. maranhensis'' Conceição, Neregato & Iannuzzi.
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''Ovalocarpus butmanii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Sergey V. Naugolnykh |author2=Valeryi V. Linkevich |year=2020 |title=Artinskian flora (Lower Permian) of the stratotypic area (the Middle Cis-Urals) |journal=Socialno-ecologicheskie Technologii |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=133–150 |doi=10.31862/2500-2961-2020-10-2-133-150 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Naugolnykh & Linkevich
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Artinskian|Artinskian]])
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{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Sverdlovsk Oblast}})
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A member of [[Biology:Ginkgoales|Ginkgoales]] belonging to the family Cheirocladaceae.
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''Palaeocupressinoxylon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ming-Li Wan |author2=Wan Yang |author3=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=''Palaeocupressinoxylon uniseriale'' n. gen. n. sp., a gymnospermous wood from the upper Permian of Central Taodonggou, southern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=117–125 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.06.002 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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In press
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Wan, Yang & Wang
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Late Permian
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Turpan–Hami Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A silicified gymnospermous [[Biology:Fossil wood|fossil wood]]. Genus includes new species ''P. uniseriale''.
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''Phoenicopsis anadyrensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Anastasia Zolina |author2=Lina Golovneva |author3=Natalya Nosova |author4=Alexander Grabovskiy |year=2020 |title=A new species of ''Phoenicopsis'' (Leptostrobales) from the Maastrichtian–Danian of Chukotka, Russia |journal=Geobios |volume=63 |pages=67–75 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.09.002 |bibcode=2020Geobi..63...67Z |s2cid=228928283 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Nosova ''in'' Zolina ''et al.''
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Late Cretaceous–Paleocene ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]]–[[Earth:Danian|Danian]])
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Rarytkin
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{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Chukotka Autonomous Okrug}})
|A member of [[Biology:Czekanowskiales|Czekanowskiales]]
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''Pseudovoltzia sapflorensis''<ref name=Johniphyllum />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Looy & Duijnstee
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Guadalupian|Guadalupian]])
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Texas}})
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A member of [[Biology:Voltziales|Voltziales]]
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''Pterostoma neehoffii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=John G. Conran |author2=Jennifer M. Bannister |author3=Uwe Kaulfuss |author4=Daphne E. Lee |year=2020 |title=''Pterostoma neehoffii'' (cf. Zamiaceae): a new species of extinct cycad from the middle Miocene of New Zealand and an overview of fossil New Zealand cycads |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=30–47 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.2019.1653939 |bibcode=2020NZJB...58...30C |s2cid=202847120 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Conran ''et al.''
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Middle Miocene
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{{Flag|New Zealand}}
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A [[Biology:Cycad|cycad]]
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''[[Biology:Pteruchus|Pteruchus frenguellii]]''<ref name=RPPDicroidium>{{Cite journal|author1=Patrick Blomenkemper |author2=Hans Kerp |author3=Abdalla Abu Hamad |author4=Benjamin Bomfleur |year=2020 |title=Contributions towards whole-plant reconstructions of ''Dicroidium'' plants (Umkomasiaceae) from the Permian of Jordan |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=278 |pages=Article 104210 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104210 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27804210B |s2cid=216248477 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Blomenkemper ''et al.''
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Late [[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 pollen organ of a [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]]
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''Pteruchus lepidus''<ref name=RPPDicroidium />
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Blomenkemper ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Permian|Late Permian]]
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[[Earth:Umm Irna Formation|Umm Irna Formation]]
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{{Flag|Jordan}}
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A pollen organ of a seed fern
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''[[Biology:Samaropsis|Samaropsis jinchangensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yifan Hua |author2=Xuelian Wang |author3=Junlin Dong |author4=Yanzhao Ji |author5=Bainian Sun |year=2020 |title=A number of new seed fossils from the lower Permian of Gansu, Northwest China: implication for research on arils |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=8 |pages=1098–1107 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2019.1566323 |bibcode=2020HBio...32.1098H |s2cid=91993795 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Hua & Sun ''in'' Hua ''et al.''
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Early [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A seed fossil. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming was published in 2020.
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''[[Biology:Umaltolepis|Umaltolepis involuta]]''<ref name=RPPUmaltolepis>{{Cite journal|author=Natalya Nosova |year=2020 |title=Female reproductive structures of ''Umaltolepis'' Krassilov and associated short shoots, buds and leaves of ''Pseudotorellia'' Florin from the Middle Jurassic of Angren, Uzbekistan |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=281 |pages=Article 104266 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104266 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104266N |s2cid=219437430 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Nosova
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Middle Jurassic
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Angren Formation
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{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
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''Umaltolepis sogdianica''<ref name=RPPUmaltolepis />
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Nosova
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Middle Jurassic
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Angren Formation
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{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
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''[[Biology:Umkomasia|Umkomasia aequatorialis]]''<ref name=RPPDicroidium />
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Blomenkemper ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Permian|Late Permian]]
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[[Earth:Umm Irna Formation|Umm Irna Formation]]
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{{Flag|Jordan}}
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A cupulate structure of a seed fern
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''Wantus''<ref name=Johniphyllum />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Looy & Duijnstee
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Guadalupian|Guadalupian]])
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Texas}})
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A member of [[Biology:Voltziales|Voltziales]]. Genus includes new species ''W. acaulis''.
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''Wudaeophyton''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Josef Pšenička |author2=Jun Wang |author3=Jason Hilton |author4=Weiming Zhou |author5=Jiří Bek |author6=Stanislav Opluštil |author7=Jana Votočková Frojdová |year=2020 |title=A small heterophyllous vine climbing on ''Psaronius'' and ''Cordaites'' trees in the earliest Permian forests of North China |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=6 |pages=616–645 |doi=10.1086/708814 |s2cid=219926230 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/98939556/708814.pdf }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Pšenička ''et al.''
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Early [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
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Taiyuan Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A small vine, most similar to [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|pteridosperms]] from the group [[Biology:Callistophytales|Callistophytales]]. Genus includes new species ''W. wangii''.
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''Yangopteris''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Weiming Zhou |author2=Shan Wan |author3=Mingli Wan |author4=Jason Hilton |author5=Josef Pšenička |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=''Yangopteris ascendens'' (Halle) gen. et comb. nov., a climbing alethopterid pteridosperm from the Asselian (earliest Permian) Wuda Tuff Flora |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104282 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104282 |s2cid=225462114 |url=https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/yangopteris-ascendens-halle-gen-et-comb-nov-a-climbing-alethopterid-pteridosperm-from-the-asselian-earliest-permian-wuda-tuff-flora(7618b969-88c1-44a5-a3e1-2d1c5a3880bf).html }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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In press
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Zhou ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Asselian|Asselian]])
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Pteridospermatophyta|seed fern]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Alethopteris|Alethopteris]]" ascendens'' Halle.
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''Yvyrapitys''<ref name=Novaiorquepitys />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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In press
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Conceição & Crisafulli ''in'' Conceição ''et al.''
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Permian ([[Earth:Cisuralian|Cisuralian]])
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Pedra de Fogo Formation
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A gymnosperm stem. Genus includes new species ''Y. novaiorquensis'' Conceição, Neregato & Iannuzzi.
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==Other plants==
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Type locality
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Biology:Annularia|Annularia paisii]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Pedro Correia |author2=Arden R. Bashforth |author3=Zbynĕk Šimůnek |author4=Christopher J. Cleal |author5=Artur A. Sá |author6=Conrad C. Labandeira |year=2020 |title=The history of herbivory on sphenophytes: a new calamitalean with an insect gall from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Portugal and a review of arthropod herbivory on an ancient lineage |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=4 |pages=387–418 |doi=10.1086/707105 |s2cid=214292984 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Correia ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Gzhelian)
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{{Flag|Portugal}}
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''Blasiites huolinhensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ruiyun Li |author2=Xiaoqiang Li |author3=Xuelian Wang |author4=Bainian Sun |year=2020 |title=First fossil liverwort with in situ flask-shaped receptacles from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=119 |pages=Article 104684 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104684|issn=0195-6671 |s2cid=226314562 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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Li ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
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Huolinhe Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Blasiaceae|Blasiaceae]].
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''Botryopteris multifolia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao-Yuan He |author2=Shi-Jun Wang |author3=Jason Hilton |author4=Jean Galtier |author5=Hong-Guan Jiang |year=2020 |title=An advanced species of the fern ''Botryopteris'' Renault from the Permian of southwestern China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=273 |pages=Article 104136 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104136 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27304136H |s2cid=210266014 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/82924629/Revised_Botryo_multif_manuscript_NO_CHANGES_MARKED.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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In press
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He ''et al.''
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Permian ([[Earth:Lopingian|Lopingian]])
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Junlian Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A fern
| 
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''Birisia mandshurica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=L. B. Golovneva |author2=A. A. Grabovskiy |author3=A. A. Zolina |year=2020 |title=A new species of the genus ''Birisia'' (Dicksoniaceae) from the lower–middle Albian deposits of Southern Primorye, Far East of Russia |journal=Palaeobotany |volume=11 |pages=74–95 |doi=10.31111/palaeobotany/2020.11.74 |s2cid=245112234 |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/a-new-species-of-the-genus-birisia-dicksoniaceae-from-the-lower-middle-albian-deposits-of-southern-primorye-far-east-of-russia }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Golovneva, Grabovskiy & Zolina
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Early Cretaceous ([[Earth:Albian|Albian]])
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Frentsevka Formation
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{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Primorsky Krai}})
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A fern belonging to the family [[Biology:Dicksoniaceae|Dicksoniaceae]].
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''[[Biology:Calamites|Calamites cambrensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Barry A. Thomas |year=2020 |title=A new species of leafy calamite stem from the Pennsylvanian (Bolsovian) of the South Wales Coalfield |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=207–211 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0010 |doi-access=free |hdl=2160/cd78c623-2a50-4c65-a758-7207027deacd |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Thomas
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Pennsylvanian)
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{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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''Catenuporella''<ref name=Catenuporella>{{Cite journal|author1=Yueyang Zhang |author2=Hongxia Jiang |author3=Yasheng Wu |author4=Hongping Bao |author5=Junfeng Ren |author6=Zhengliang Huang |year=2020 |title=Calcified dasycladaleans from the Upper Ordovician in the Ordos Basin, China |journal=Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=228–237 |doi=10.16087/j.cnki.1000-0674.2020.03.003 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Zhang ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Ordovician|Ordovician]]
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Ordos Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales. Genus includes new species ''C. gigantia''.
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''Charaxis spicatus''<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|author1=Jordi Pérez-Cano |author2=Telm Bover-Arnal |author3=Carles Martín-Closas |year=2020 |title=Barremian charophytes from the Maestrat Basin |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=115 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104544 |hdl=2445/171586 |s2cid=224875084 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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emend. nov.
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Valid
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Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas ''in'' Pérez-Cano ''et al.''
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Barremian
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Maestrat Basin
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{{Flag|Spain}}
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Thallus of ''Echinochara lazarii''. Both taxa has been firstly found anatomically attached
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|''Chlamydomonas hanublikanus''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jan Hinkelman |author2=Lucia Vršanská |year=2020 |title=A Myanmar amber cockroach with protruding feces contains pollen and a rich microcenosis |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=107 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 13 |doi=10.1007/s00114-020-1669-y |pmid=32125545 |bibcode=2020SciNa.107...13H |s2cid=211730431 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov 
|
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Vršanská & Hinkelman
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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 species of ''[[Biology:Chlamydomonas|Chlamydomonas]]''
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''Circinites''<ref name=Circinites>{{Cite journal|author1=Juan M. Robledo |author2=Luisa M. Anzótegui |author3=Olga G. Martínez |author4=Ricardo N. Alonso |year=2020 |title=Flora and insect trace fossils from the Mio-Pliocene Quebrada del Toro locality (Gobernador Solá, Salta, Argentina) |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=100 |pages=Article 102544 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102544 |bibcode=2020JSAES.10002544R |s2cid=216377729 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
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In press
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Robledo & Anzótegui ''in'' Robledo ''et al.''
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Miocene-Pliocene
| 
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A fern belonging to the family [[Biology:Pteridaceae|Pteridaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. pteridoides''.
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|''Clavatisporites cenomaniana''<ref name=CR109Santamarinaetal />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Santamarina ''in'' Santamarina ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Mata Amarilla Formation|Mata Amarilla Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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Spores of a member of [[Biology:Filicopsida|Filicopsida]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.
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|-
|''Clavator calcitrapus ''var. ''jiangluoensis''<ref name="auto"/>
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comb. nov
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Valid
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Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas ''in'' Pérez-Cano ''et al.''
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Barremian
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Maestrat Basin
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{{Flag|Spain}}
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Clavatoracean species.
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|-
| ''Collarecodium? nezpercae''<ref name=BucureetalRIPS />
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Bucur & Rigaud ''in'' Bucur ''et al.''
| [[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]] (Norian)
|
| {{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Idaho}})
| A green alga belonging to the group [[Biology:Bryopsidales|Bryopsidales]] and possibly to the family [[Biology:Udoteaceae|Udoteaceae]].
| 
|-
|
''Collarisporites minor''<ref name=CR109Santamarinaetal />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Santamarina ''in'' Santamarina ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Mata Amarilla Formation|Mata Amarilla Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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Spores of a member of [[Biology:Filicopsida|Filicopsida]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Coniopteris|Coniopteris sandaolingensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiu-Cai Yuan |author2=Cong-Hui Xiong |author3=Fan-Kai Sun |author4=Zi-Xi Wang |author5=Teng Mao |author6=Yi-Jie Li |author7=Chun-Hui Liu |author8=Ming-Xuan Sun |author9=Jun-Ling Dong |author10=Bai-Nian Sun |year=2020 |title=The geological significance of a new species of ''Coniopteris'' from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=267–280 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2018.1488251 |bibcode=2020HBio...32..267Y |s2cid=89752285 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Yuan & Sun ''in'' Yuan ''et al.''
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Middle Jurassic
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Xishanyao Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
| 
| 
|-
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''Dimicheleodendron''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Barry A. Thomas |author2=Christopher J. Cleal |year=2020 |title=The nomenclature of fossil‐taxa representing different preservational states: ''Lepidodendron'' as a case‐study |journal=Taxon |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=1052–1061 |doi=10.1002/tax.12291 |s2cid=225235565 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Thomas & Cleal
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Carboniferous
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{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A [[Biology:Lycophyte|lycophyte]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Lepidodendron|Lepidodendron]]" hickii''.
| 
|-
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''Drynaria diplosticha''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yang Yu |author2=San-Ping Xie |author3=John Devaney |author4=Si-Hang Zhang |author5=Tian-Yu Chen |author6=Xu Zeng |author7=Bing Wang |author8=Yu Zhang |year=2020 |title=A new species of ''Drynaria'' (Polypodiaceae) from the late Miocene of Yunnan, Southwest China and implications on the genus evolution |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=939–949 |doi=10.1007/s12549-020-00429-0 |bibcode=2020PdPe..100..939Y |s2cid=219730737 |url=https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/16135/1/Yu2020_Article_ANewSpeciesOfDrynariaPolypodia.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Yu & Xie ''in'' Yu ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
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Bangmai Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A fern belonging to the family [[Biology:Polypodiaceae|Polypodiaceae]].
| 
|-
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''Echinochara lazarii''<ref name="auto"/>
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comb. nov
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Valid
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Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et MArtín-Closas ''in'' Pérez-Cano ''et al.''
|
Barremian
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Maestrat Basin
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{{Flag|Spain}}
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A member of Clavatoraceans.
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|-
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''Equicalastrobus pusillus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Li Zhang |author2=Yong Wang |author3=Hong-Yu Chen |author4=Lei Han |author5=Yu-Xin Zhang |author6=Wen-Jia Li |author7=Tao Yang |author8=Hao-Jian Wang |author9=Lin Bao |author10=De-Fei Yan |year=2020 |title=New fossil material of ''Equicalastrobus'' (Equisetales) and associated leaves from the Late Triassic of Baojishan basin, Gansu Province, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=9 |pages=1522–1533 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1716747 |s2cid=213295920 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Zhang & Yan ''in'' Zhang ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Triassic|Late Triassic]]
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Baojishan Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Equisetales|Equisetales]]. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming was published in 2021.
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|-
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''Equisetum yenbaiense''<ref name=PhytoKeys138>{{Cite journal|author1=Aye Thida Aung |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Truong Van Do |author4=Ai Song |author5=Jia Liu |author6=Zhe-Kun Zhou |author7=Tao Su |year=2020 |title=Three new fossil records of ''Equisetum'' (Equisetaceae) from the Neogene of south-western China and northern Vietnam |journal=PhytoKeys |issue=138 |pages=3–15 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.138.38674 |pmid=31988601 |pmc=6969027 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Aung ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
| 
|
{{Flag|Vietnam}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Equisetum|Equisetum]]''
| 
|-
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''Equisetum yongpingense''<ref name=PhytoKeys138 />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Aung ''et al.''
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Late Pliocene
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Sanying Formation
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{{Flag|Vietnam}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Equisetum|Equisetum]]''
| 
|-
| ''Filippoporella''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Branko Sokač |author2=Tonći Grgasović |year=2020 |title=New dasycladalean alga with unusual two types of laterals from the Palaocene deposits of Konavle, SE of Dubrovnik (Dinarides, Croatia) |journal=Revue de Micropaléontologie |volume=69 |pages=Article 100464 |doi=10.1016/j.revmic.2020.100464 |bibcode=2020RvMic..6900464S |s2cid=226343559 }}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov
| In press
| Sokač & Grgasović
| Early [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
|
| {{Flag|Croatia}}
| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales. Genus includes new species ''F. barattoloi''.
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|-
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''Frullania partita''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ya Li |author2=Yong-Dong Wang |author3=Harald Schnerder |author4=Peng-Cheng Wu |year=2020 |title=''Frullania partita'' sp. nov. (Frullaniaceae, Porellales), a new leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=108 |pages=Article 104341 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104341 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10804341L |s2cid=213553976 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Li ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
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A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]], a species of ''[[Biology:Frullania|Frullania]]''
| 
|-
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''Frullania vanae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yuriy S. Mamontov |author2=John J. Atwood |author3=Evgeny E. Perkovsky |author4=Michael S. Ignatov |year=2020 |title=Hepatics from Rovno amber (Ukraine): ''Frullania pycnoclada'' and a new species, ''F. vanae'' |journal=The Bryologist |volume=123 |issue=3 |pages=421–430 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-123.3.421 |s2cid=225406886 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Mamontov ''et al.''
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Eocene
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[[Biology:Rovno amber|Rovno amber]]
|
{{Flag|Ukraine}}
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A liverwort, a species of ''Frullania''
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|-
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''Gippslandites''<ref name=Gippslandites>{{cite journal |author1=Fearghus R. McSweeney |author2=Jeff Shimeta |author3=John St. J. S. Buckeridge |year=2020 |title=Two new genera of early Tracheophyta (Zosterophyllaceae) from the upper Silurian–Lower Devonian of Victoria, Australia |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=379–396 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2020.1744725 |bibcode=2020Alch...44..379M |s2cid=218993880 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
McSweeney, Shimeta & Buckeridge
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Late [[Earth:Silurian|Silurian]]–early [[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]]
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Zosterophyll|Zosterophyll]]aceae. Genus includes new species ''G. minutus''.
|
|-
| ''Gmujij''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Kelly C. Pfeiler |author2=Alexandru M. F. Tomescu |year=2020 |title=An Early Devonian actinostelic euphyllophyte with secondary growth from the Emsian of Gaspé (Canada) and the importance of tracheid wall thickening patterns in early euphyllophyte systematics |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=1081–1095 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1335 |s2cid=225425418 }}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov
| Valid
| Pfeiler & Tomescu
| [[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] ([[Earth:Emsian|Emsian]])
| Battery Point
| {{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Quebec}})
| An early [[Biology:Euphyllophyte|euphyllophyte]]. Genus includes new species ''G. tetraxylopteroides''. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
| ''Griphoporella minuta''<ref name=BucureetalRIPS />
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Bucur & Peybernes ''in'' Bucur ''et al.''
| Late Triassic
|
| {{Flag|Japan}}
| A green alga belonging to the group [[Biology:Dasycladales|Dasycladales]] and the family Triploporellaceae.
| 
|-
| ''Hansopteris''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Weiming Zhou |author2=Josef Pšenička |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Mingli Wan |author5=C. Kevin Boyce |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=A new anachoropterid fern from the Asselian (Cisuralian) Wuda Tuff Flora |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104346 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104346 |s2cid=228855095 }}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov
| In press
| Zhou ''et al.''
| [[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Asselian|Asselian]])
|
| {{Flag|China}}
| An anachoropterid fern. Genus includes new species ''H. uncinatus''.
|
|-
| ''Holosporella magna''<ref name=BucureetalRIPS />
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Bucur & Fucelli ''in'' Bucur ''et al.''
| Late Triassic (Norian)
|
| {{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Nevada}})
| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Triploporellaceae.
| 
|-
| ''Holosporella? rossanae''<ref name=BucureetalRIPS>{{Cite journal|author1=Ioan I. Bucur |author2=Sylvain Rigaud |author3=Nicolò Del Piero |author4=Andrea Fucelli |author5=Eric Heerwagen |author6=Camille Peybernes |author7=Giovan Peyrotty |author8=Christian Verard |author9=Jérôme Chablais |author10=Rossana Martini |year=2020 |title=Upper Triassic calcareous algae from the Panthalassa Ocean |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=499–540 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13681 }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Bucur & Del Piero ''in'' Bucur ''et al.''
| Late Triassic (Norian)
|
| {{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Yukon}})
| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Triploporellaceae.
|
|-
|
''Inocladus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Steven T. LoDuca |author2=Anthony L. Swinehart |author3=Matthew A. LeRoy |author4=Denis K. Tetreault |author5=Shawn Steckenfinger |year=2020 |title=''Codium''-like taxa from the Silurian of North America: morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and phylogenetic affinity |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=207–235 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2020.85 |s2cid=228938523 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
LoDuca ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Silurian|Silurian]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}
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An alga related to the group [[Biology:Bryopsidales|Bryopsidales]]. Genus includes ''"Buthotrephis" divaricata'' White (1901), ''"B." newlini'' White (1901), ''"B." lesquereuxi'' Grote & Pitt (1876) and ''"Chondrites" verus'' Ruedemann (1925). Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
| 
|-
|
''Intermurella ordosensis''<ref name=Catenuporella />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhang ''et al.''
|
Late Ordovician
|
Ordos Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales.
|
|-
|
''Jurafructus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Li-jun Chen |author2=Ye-mao Hou |author3=Peng-fei Yin |author4=Xin Wang |year=2020 |title=An edible fruit from the Jurassic of China |journal=China Geology |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=8–15 |doi=10.31035/cg2020010 |bibcode=2020CGeo....3....8C |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Chen ''et al.''
|
Middle−Late Jurassic
|
Jiulongshan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a flowering plant described on the basis of a probable fossil [[Biology:Drupe|drupe]]. Genus includes new species ''J. daohugouensis''.
|
|-
|
''Keraphyton''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Antoine Champreux |author2=Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud |author3=Anne-Laure Decombeix |year=2020 |title=''Keraphyton'' gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia |journal=PeerJ |volume=8 |pages=e9321 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9321 |pmid=32587800 |pmc=7304422 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Champreux, Meyer-Berthaud & Decombeix
|
[[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] ([[Earth:Famennian|Famennian]])
|
Mandowa Mudstone Formation
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Iridopteridales|Iridopteridales]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species ''K. mawsoniae''.
|
|-
|
''Khasurtya''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=D. S. Kopylov |author2=A. P. Rasnitsyn |author3=D. S. Aristov |author4=A. S. Bashkuev |author5=N. V. Bazhenova |author6=V. Yu. Dmitriev |author7=A. V. Gorochov |author8=M. S. Ignatov |author9=V. D. Ivanov |author10=A. V. Khramov |author11=A. A. Legalov |author12=E. D. Lukashevich |author13=Yu. S. Mamontov |author14=S. I. Melnitsky |author15=B. Ogłaza |author16=A. G. Ponomarenko |author17=A. A. Prokin |author18=O. V. Ryzhkova |author19=A. S. Shmakov |author20=N. D. Sinitshenkova |author21=A. Yu. Solodovnikov |author22=O. D. Strelnikova |author23=I. D. Sukacheva |author24=A. V. Uliakhin |author25=D. V. Vasilenko |author26=P. Wegierek |author27=E. V. Yan |author28=M. Zmarzły |year=2020 |title=The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=54 |issue=11 |pages=1221–1394 |doi=10.1134/S0031030120110027 |bibcode=2020PalJ...54.1221K |s2cid=231850225 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mamontov ''in'' Kopylov ''et al.''
|
Early Cretaceous
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A liverwort belonging to the group [[Biology:Marchantiidae|Marchantiidae]]. Genus includes new species ''K. ginkgoides''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Lepidodendron|Lepidodendron demkinae]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Yu.V. Mosseichik |year=2020 |title=''Lepidodendron'' species from the Viséan of the Moscow Basin |journal=Lethaea Rossica |volume=20 |pages=19–33 |url=http://paleobot.ru/pdf/02_2020_20.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mosseichik
|
[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Viséan)
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
|
|-
|
''Lobatannularia linjiaensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yi-zhi Xu |author2=Ning Yue |author3=Shi Liu |author4=Yi Zhang |author5=Shao-lin Zheng |author6=Yong-dong Wang |author7=Xin-ran Huo |year=2020 |title=''Lobatannularia linjiaensis'' sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic of Benxi, Liaoning |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Sinica |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=329–344 |doi=10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2019.024 |url=http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxb/article/abstract/20200305 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Xu ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Middle Triassic|Middle Triassic]]
|
Linjia Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Equisetales|Equisetales]].
|
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''Lygodium sanshuiense''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Sergey V. Naugolnykh |author2=Ming Tu |author3=Xiao-Yan Liu |author4=Jian-Hua Jin |year=2020 |title=A new species of ''Lygodium'' (Schizaeaceae) from the Buxin Formation (Paleocene), Sanshui Basin, South China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=606–616 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.003 |s2cid=199101009 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Naugolnykh ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
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Buxin Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A species of ''[[Biology:Lygodium|Lygodium]]''. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
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''[[Biology:Metzgeriites|Metzgeriites kujiensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Tomoyuki Katagiri |author2=Hisao Shinden |year=2020 |title=Discovery of a simple thalloid liverwort ''Metzgeriites kujiensis'' (Metzgeriaceae), a new species from Late Cretaceous Japanese amber |journal=Hattoria |volume=11 |pages=13–21 |doi=10.18968/hattoria.11.0_13 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Katagiri ''in'' Katagiri & Shinden
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Late Cretaceous ([[Earth:Santonian|Santonian]])
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Tamagawa Formation
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{{Flag|Japan}}
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A liverwort.
| 
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|''Munieria martinclosasi''<ref name="auto"/>
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comb. nov.
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Valid
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Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas ''in'' Pérez-Cano ''et al.''
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Barremian
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[[Place:Lebanon|Lebanon]]
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{{Flag|Lebanon}}
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Clavatoracean thallus. Formerly known as ''Charaxis martinclosasi''
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|-
|''Neoarthropitys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia Gnaedinger |author2=Bárbara Cariglino |author3=Ana María Zavattieri |author4=Mariana Monti |author5=Pedro R. Gutiérrez |year=2020 |title=''Neoarthropitys gondwanaensis'' gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic of Gondwana: An intermediate stage in the anatomical trend of Equisetalean stems |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=282 |pages=Article 104298 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104298 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28204298G |s2cid=225347405 }}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov
| In press
| Gnaedinger ''et al.''
| [[Earth:Middle Triassic|Middle Triassic]]
| Quebrada de los Fósiles
| {{Flag|Argentina}}
| A member of [[Biology:Equisetales|Equisetales]]. Genus includes new species ''N. gondwanaensis''.
|
|-
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''Osmundacaulis asiatica''<ref name=GFOsmundacaulis>{{Cite journal|author1=Yeming Cheng |author2=Fengxiang Liu |author3=Xiaonan Yang |author4=Tongxing Sun |year=2020 |title=Two new species of Mesozoic tree ferns (Osmundaceae: ''Osmundacaulis'') in Eurasia as evidence of long-term geographic isolation |journal=Geoscience Frontiers |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=1875–1888 |doi=10.1016/j.gsf.2020.01.019 |bibcode=2020GeoFr..11.1875C |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Cheng ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]
| 
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Osmundaceae|Osmundaceae]]
| 
|-
|
''Osmundacaulis sinica''<ref name=GFOsmundacaulis />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Cheng ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]]
| 
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Osmundaceae|Osmundaceae]]
| 
|-
|
''Ovoidites circumplicatus''<ref name=AlcheringaZavattierietal>{{cite journal |author1=Ana M. Zavattieri |author2=Pedro R. Gutiérrez |author3=Mariana Monti |year=2020 |title=Middle Triassic freshwater green algae and fungi of the Puesto Viejo Basin, central-western Argentina: palaeoenvironmental implications |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=430–459 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2020.1749302 |bibcode=2020Alch...44..430Z |s2cid=219519003 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zavattieri, Gutiérrez & Monti
|
[[Earth:Middle Triassic|Middle Triassic]]
|
Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A green alga belonging to the group [[Biology:Zygnematales|Zygnematales]].
|
|-
|
''Ovoidites tripartitus''<ref name=AlcheringaZavattierietal />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zavattieri, Gutiérrez & Monti
|
Middle Triassic
|
Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A green alga belonging to the group Zygnematales.
|
|-
|
''Palaeostachya guanglongii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Li Liu |author2=Josef Pšenička |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Mingli Wan |author5=Hermann W. Pfefferkorn |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=A whole calamitacean plant ''Palaeostachya guanglongii'' from the Asselian (Permian) Taiyuan Formation in the Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104245 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104245 |s2cid=219017989 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Liu ''et al.''
|
Permian ([[Earth:Asselian|Asselian]])
|
Taiyuan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Calamitaceae|Calamitaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Parazosterophyllum''<ref name=Gippslandites />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
McSweeney, Shimeta & Buckeridge
|
Late Silurian–early Devonian
|
|
{{Flag|Australia}}
|
A member of Zosterophyllaceae. Genus includes new species ''P. timsiae''.
|
|-
| ''Patruliuspora oregonica''<ref name=BucureetalRIPS />
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Bucur & Rigaud ''in'' Bucur ''et al.''
| Late Triassic (Norian)
|
| {{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Oregon}})
| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family [[Biology:Polyphysaceae|Polyphysaceae]].
| 
|-
| ''Patruliuspora pacifica''<ref name=BucureetalRIPS />
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Bucur, Del Piero & Peyrotty ''in'' Bucur ''et al.''
| Late Triassic (Norian)
|
| {{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Yukon}})
| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Polyphysaceae.
| 
|-
| ''Pellites hamiensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ruiyun Li |author2=Xiaoqiang Li |author3=Shenghui Deng |author4=Bainian Sun |year=2020 |title=Morphology and microstructure of ''Pellites hamiensis'' nov. sp., a Middle Jurassic liverwort from northwestern China and its evolutionary significance |journal=Geobios |volume=62 |pages=23–29 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.07.003 |bibcode=2020Geobi..62...23L |s2cid=225500594 }}</ref>
| Sp. nov
| Valid
| Li ''et al.''
| Middle Jurassic
| Xishanyao
| {{Flag|China}}
| A [[Biology:Marchantiophyta|liverwort]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Pelliaceae|Pelliaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Plenasium (Aurealcaulis) elegans''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=P. Hiller |author2=M. Böhme |author3=S. Schneider |author4=J. Prieto |author5=B. Bomfleur |year=2020 |title=''Plenasium (Aurealcaulis) elegans'' sp. nov. from the Eocene of Vietnam – a connecting link in the evolution of modern Royal Ferns (Osmundeae, Osmundaceae) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=703–715 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2019.1683771 |bibcode=2020JSPal..18..703H |s2cid=209573114 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Hiller ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Na Duong Formation
|
{{Flag|Vietnam}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Osmundaceae|Osmundaceae]]
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Pleuromeia|Pleuromeia shaolinii]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yi Zhang |author2=Yong-Dong Wang |author3=Yue Hong |author4=Liu Cao |author5=Fu-liang Gao |year=2020 |title=''Pleuromeia'' discovered from the Middle Triassic Linjia Formation of Benxi, Northeast China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=706–714 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.02.004 |s2cid=216475501 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhang & Wang ''in'' Zhang ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Middle Triassic|Middle Triassic]]
|
Linjia
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{{Flag|China}}
| 
| 
|-
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''Polycingulatisporites multiverrucata''<ref name=CR109Santamarinaetal>{{Cite journal|author1=Patricio Emmanuel Santamarina |author2=Viviana Dora Barreda |author3=Ari Iglesias |author4=Augusto Nicolás Varela |year=2020 |title=Palynology from the Cenomanian Mata Amarilla Formation, southern Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=109 |pages=Article 104354 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104354 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10904354S |s2cid=212976442 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Santamarina ''in'' Santamarina ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Mata Amarilla Formation|Mata Amarilla]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
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Spores of a member of Bryophyta of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly of [[Biology:Sphagnaceae|sphagnaceous]] affinity. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.
| 
|-
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''Polypodiisporites minutiverrucatus''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
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Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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[[Biology:Pteridophyte|Pteridophyte]] spore. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
|''Polysporia baetica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Carmen Álvarez-Vázquez |author2=Jiří Bek |author3=Jana Drábková |year=2020 |title=''Polysporia baetica'' sp. nov., a new heterosporous sub-arborescent isoetalean from lower Bolsovian (Middle Pennsylvanian) strata of the Peñarroya-Belmez-Espiel Coalfield (Córdoba, SW Spain) |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=272 |pages=Article 104115 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104115 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27204115A |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Álvarez-Vázquez, Bek & Drábková
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[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Pennsylvanian)
|
Peñarroya-Belmez-Espiel Coalfield
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
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A member of [[Biology:Isoetales|Isoetales]]
|
|-
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''Polystichum pacltovae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zlatko Kvaček |author2=Vasilis Teodoridis |year=2020 |title=A new Oligocene fern of Dryopteridaceae from the Českéstředohoří Mts (Czech Republic) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=295 |issue=1 |pages=9–16 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2020/0864 |s2cid=213778635 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kvaček ''in'' Kvaček & Teodoridis
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
| 
|
{{Flag|Czech Republic}}
|
A fern, a species of ''[[Biology:Polystichum|Polystichum]]''
| 
|-
|
''Proodontosoria''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chunxiang Li |author2=Robbin C. Moran |author3=Junye Ma |author4=Bo Wang |author5=Jiasheng Hao |year=2020 |title=A new fossil record of Lindsaeaceae (Polypodiales) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=105 |pages=Article 104040 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2018.12.010 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10504040L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A fern belonging to the family [[Biology:Lindsaeaceae|Lindsaeaceae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. myanmarensis''.
| 
|-
|
''Proterocladus antiquus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qing Tang |author2=Ke Pang |author3=Xunlai Yuan |author4=Shuhai Xiao |year=2020 |title=A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=543–549 |doi=10.1038/s41559-020-1122-9 |pmid=32094536 |pmc=8668152 |bibcode=2020NatEE...4..543T |s2cid=211266015 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tang ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Mesoproterozoic|Mesoproterozoic]]<br>circa 1 Ga
|
Nanfen
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An early siphonocladalean [[Biology:Chlorophyta|chlorophyte]]
| 
|-
|
''Psilatriletes cozzuolii''<ref name=Palynology451 />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D’Apolito
|
Miocene
|
Solimões Basin
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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Pteridophyte spore. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.
|
|-
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''Psilochara monevaensis''<ref name=charophytesGeobios>{{Cite journal|author1=Josep Sanjuan |author2=Ingeborg Soulié-Märsche |year=2020 |title=New charophyte assemblage from middle Miocene lacustrine deposits of Moneva (Ebro Basin, Spain) |journal=Geobios |volume=59 |pages=79–90 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.03.001 |bibcode=2020Geobi..59...79S |s2cid=218775725 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sanjuan & Soulié-Märsche
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A [[Biology:Charophyta|charophyte]].
|
|-
|
''Qianshouia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Pu Huang |author2=Le Liu |author3=Lu Liu |author4=Min Qin |author5=De-Ming Wang |author6=Jin-Zhuang Xue |year=2020 |title=A new plant with novel leaves from the Upper Devonian of Zhejiang Province, China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=695–705 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.03.003 |s2cid=216265575 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Huang ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]]
| 
Wutong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
| 
A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a [[Biology:Lycopsid|lycopsid]] or a sphenopsid. Genus includes new species ''Q. mira''.
|
|-
|
''Scolecopteris minuta''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mingli Wan |author2=Wenjun Sun |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Feng Liu |author5=Christopher Hill |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=''Scolecopteris minuta'' sp. nov., a marattialean fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104246 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104246 |s2cid=219013492 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
Wan ''et al.''
|
Early Permian
|
Taiyuan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A fern belonging to the group [[Biology:Marattiales|Marattiales]].
| 
|-
|
''[[Biology:Sigillaria|Sigillaria pfefferkornii]]''<ref name=RPPSigillaria>{{Cite journal|author1=Michael P. D'Antonio |author2=C. Kevin Boyce |author3=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=Two new species of ''Sigillaria'' Brongniart from the Wuda Tuff (Asselian: Inner Mongolia, China) and their implications for lepidodendrid life history reconstruction |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104203 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104203 |s2cid=216296882 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
D'Antonio, Boyce & Wang
|
[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Asselian|Asselian]])
| 
|
{{Flag|China}}
| 
| 
|-
|
''[[Biology:Sigillaria|Sigillaria wudensis]]''<ref name=RPPSigillaria />
|
Sp. nov
|
In press
|
D'Antonio, Boyce & Wang
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[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Asselian|Asselian]])
| 
|
{{Flag|China}}
| 
| 
|-
|
''Sphaerochara miocenica''<ref name=charophytesGeobios />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sanjuan & Soulié-Märsche
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Lebanon}}<br>
{{Flag|Spain}}
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A charophyte.
|
|-
|
''Thyrsopteris cretacea''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chunxiang Li |author2=Robbin C. Moran |author3=Junye Ma |author4=Bo Wang |author5=Jiasheng Hao |author6=Qun Yang |year=2020 |title=A mid-Cretaceous tree fern of Thyrsopteridaceae (Cyatheales) preserved in Myanmar amber |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=105 |pages=Article 104050 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.002 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10504050L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Burmese amber|Burmese amber]]
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Thyrsopteris|Thyrsopteris]]''
| 
|-
|
''[[Biology:Tomiostrobus|Tomiostrobus sinensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhuo Feng |author2=Hai-Bo Wei |author3=Yun Guo |author4=Xiao-Yuan He |author5=Qun Sui |author6=Yu Zhou |author7=Hang-Yu Liu |author8=Xu-Dong Gou |author9=Yong Lv |year=2020 |title=From rainforest to herbland: New insights into land plant responses to the end-Permian mass extinction |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |volume=204 |pages=Article 103153 |doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103153 |bibcode=2020ESRv..20403153F |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Feng ''in'' Feng ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Triassic|Early Triassic]] (Induan)
|
Kayitou Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Isoetaceae|Isoetaceae]].
| 
|-
|
''Tumidopteris astra''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Serge V. Naugolnykh |year=2020 |title=A new species of the genus ''Tumidopteris'' Naugolnykh from the Permian of the Pechora Cis-Urals, Russia |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=270–278 |doi=10.37520/fi.2020.022 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Naugolnykh
|
[[Earth:Permian|Permian]] ([[Earth:Roadian|Roadian]])
|
Pechora coal basin
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A fern belonging to the family [[Biology:Gleicheniaceae|Gleicheniaceae]].
|
|-
|
''Ufadendron elongatum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhen Tang |author2=Yi Zhang |author3=Serge V. Naugolnykh |author4=Changqing Zheng |author5=Lu Shi |author6=Tao Qin |author7=Junhao Huang |year=2020 |title=''Ufadendron elongatum'' sp. nov., an Angaran lycopsid from the Upper Permian of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Journal of Earth Science |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1007/s12583-019-1230-0 |bibcode=2020JEaSc..31....1T |s2cid=198412529 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tang ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Permian|Permian]]
|
Linxi
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Lycopsid|lycopsid]] belonging to the family Tomiodendraceae
| 
|-
|
''Uzhurodendron''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yu.V. Mosseichik |author2=A.N. Filimonov |year=2020 |title=A new interpretation of ''Cyclostigma''-like lepidophytes from the lower Tournaisian of the Minusinsk Basin (Southern Siberia) |journal=Lethaea Rossica |volume=20 |pages=1–18 |url=http://paleobot.ru/pdf/01_2020_20.pdf }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mosseichik & Filimonov
|
[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Tournaisian)
|
Bystrianskaya
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Krasnoyarsk Krai}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Lycopodiopsida|Lycopodiopsida]]. Genus includes new species ''U. asiaticum''.
|
|-
|
''Zeilleria fosteri''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Barry A. Thomas |author2=Peter Appleton |author3=Christopher J. Cleal |author4=Leyla J. Seyfullah |year=2020 |title=The distribution of plant fossils and their palaeoecology in Duckmantian (Bashkirian, Lower Pennsylvanian) strata at Brymbo, North Wales, UK |journal=Geological Journal |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=3179–3207 |doi=10.1002/gj.3529 |bibcode=2020GeolJ..55.3179T |doi-access=free |hdl=2160/94c63f47-b98c-4da6-b0e1-cce798fb1a03 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Thomas ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] (Bashkirian)
| 
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A [[Biology:Fern|fern]]
| 
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== General research ==
* A study on the evolutionary history of green plants is published by Nie ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yuan Nie |author2=Charles S. P. Foster |author3=Tianqi Zhu |author4=Ru Yao |author5=David A. Duchêne |author6=Simon Y. W. Ho |author7=Bojian Zhong |year=2020 |title=Accounting for uncertainty in the evolutionary timescale of green plants through clock-partitioning and fossil calibration strategies |journal=Systematic Biology |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz032 |pmid=31058981 }}</ref>
* Description of new fossil material of ''Yurtusia uniformis'' from the [[Earth:Cambrian|Cambrian]] [[Earth:Yanjiahe Formation|Yanjiahe Formation]] ({{wipe|China}}) and a study on the phylogenetic relationships and possible life cycle of this organism is published by Shang ''et al.'' (2020), who consider ''Y. uniformis'' to be a likely [[Biology:Green algae|green]] [[Biology:Microalgae|microalga]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiaodong Shang |author2=Pengju Liu |author3=Małgorzata Moczydłowska |author4=Ben Yang |year=2020 |title=Algal affinity and possible life cycle of the early Cambrian acritarch ''Yurtusia uniformis'' from South China |journal=Palaeontology |volume=63 |issue=6 |pages=903–917 |doi=10.1111/pala.12491 |bibcode=2020Palgy..63..903S |s2cid=225688779 }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of extant and fossil complex thalloid liverworts ([[Biology:Marchantiidae|Marchantiidae]]) is published by Flores ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jorge R. Flores |author2=Alexander C. Bippus |author3=Guillermo M. Suárez |author4=Jaakko Hyvönen |year=2020 |title=Defying death: incorporating fossils into the phylogeny of the complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiidae, Marchantiophyta) confirms high order clades but reveals discrepancies in family‐level relationships |journal=Cladistics |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=231–247 |doi=10.1111/cla.12442 |pmid=34478198 |s2cid=225165843 }}</ref>
* Evidence of development of [[Biology:Root#Architecture|dichotomous roots]] in [[Biology:Euphyllophyte|euphyllophyte]]s that were extant during the [[Earth:Devonian|Devonian]] and [[Earth:Carboniferous|Carboniferous]] periods is presented by Hetherington, Berry & Dolan (2020), who interpret their findings as indicating that dichotomous root branching evolved in both [[Biology:Lycophyte|lycophyte]]s and euphyllophytes.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexander J. Hetherington |author2=Christopher M. Berry |author3=Liam Dolan |year=2020 |title=Multiple origins of dichotomous and lateral branching during root evolution |journal=Nature Plants |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=454–459 |doi=10.1038/s41477-020-0646-y |pmid=32366983 |s2cid=218495278 |url=http://orca.cf.ac.uk/131851/1/Berry.pdf }}</ref>
* An early land plant producing multiple spore size classes is described from the Lower Devonian Campbellton Formation ({{wipe|Canada}}) by Bonacorsi ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Nikole K. Bonacorsi |author2=Patricia G. Gensel |author3=Francis M. Hueber |author4=Charles H. Wellman |author5=Andrew B. Leslie |year=2020 |title=A novel reproductive strategy in an Early Devonian plant |journal=Current Biology |volume=30 |issue=9 |pages=R388–R389 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.040 |pmid=32369746 |s2cid=218486377 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the impact of the appearance and evolution of herbivorous [[Biology:Tetrapod|tetrapod]]s on the evolution of land plants from the Carboniferous to the [[Earth:Early Triassic|Early Triassic]] is published by Brocklehurst, Kammerer & Benson (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Neil Brocklehurst |author2=Christian F. Kammerer |author3=Roger J. Benson |year=2020 |title=The origin of tetrapod herbivory: effects on local plant diversity |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=287 |issue=1928 |pages=Article ID 20200124 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2020.0124 |pmid=32517628 |pmc=7341937 }}</ref>
* A study on the production of [[Biology:Bark (botany)#Periderm|periderm]] in Late Paleozoic arborescent [[Biology:Lycopsid|lycopsid]]s is published by D'Antonio & Boyce (2020), who argue that these lycopsids did not grow from sporelings into large trees through the production of a periderm cylinder, because physiological limitations would have prohibited the production of thick periderm.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Michael P. D'Antonio |author2=C. Kevin Boyce |year=2020 |title=Arborescent lycopsid periderm production was limited |journal=New Phytologist |volume=228 |issue=2 |pages=741–751 |doi=10.1111/nph.16727 |pmid=32506426 |s2cid=219538872 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the architecture and development of the Carboniferous arborescent lycopsid ''Paralycopodites'' is published by DiMichele & Bateman (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=William A. DiMichele |author2=Richard M. Bateman |year=2020 |title=Better together: Joint consideration of anatomy and morphology illuminates the architecture and life history of the Carboniferous arborescent lycopsid ''Paralycopodites'' |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=58 |issue=6 |pages=783–804 |doi=10.1111/jse.12662 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* New information on the anatomy of ''[[Biology:Weichselia|Weichselia]] reticulata'' is presented by Blanco‐Moreno, Decombeix & Prestianni (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Candela Blanco‐Moreno |author2=Anne‐Laure Decombeix |author3=Cyrille Prestianni |year=2020 |title=New insights into the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fern ''Weichselia reticulata'' based on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium) |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=1351–1372 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1344 |s2cid=228860679 |url=https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-03038289/file/BlancoMoreno%20et%20al%202021%20postprint%20for%20HAL.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic placement of the extinct fern genus ''[[Biology:Coniopteris|Coniopteris]]'' is published by Li ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chunxiang Li |author2=Xinyuan Miao |author3=Li-Bing Zhang |author4=Junye Ma |author5=Jiasheng Hao |year=2020 |title=Re-evaluation of the systematic position of the Jurassic–Early Cretaceous fern genus ''Coniopteris'' |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=105 |pages=Article 104136 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.04.007 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10504136L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* New information on the morphology of ''Paleoazolla patagonica'' is presented by Benedetti ''et al.'' (2020), who evaluate the implications of this taxon for the knowledge of the evolution of water ferns.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Facundo De Benedetti |author2=María del C. Zamaloa |author3=María A. Gandolfo |author4=Néstor R. Cúneo |year=2020 |title=Reinterpretation of ''Paleoazolla'': a heterosporous water fern from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=7 |pages=1054–1071 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1501 |pmid=32596837 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study aiming to determine which ferns were most likely to be the producers of ''Cyathidites'' spores from earliest [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] plant localities across western North America, and were most likely to be among the first plants in western North America to thrive in the immediate aftermath of the [[Earth:Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event]], is published by Berry (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Keith Berry |year=2020 |title=The first plants to recolonize western North America following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=182 |issue=1 |pages=19–27 |doi=10.1086/711847 |s2cid=229366358 }}</ref>
* A study on the morphology and development of ''Genomosperma'', and on its implications for the knowledge of the evolutionary origins of seed development, is published by Meade, Plackett & Hilton (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Luke E. Meade |author2=Andrew R.G. Plackett |author3=Jason Hilton |year=2020 |title=Reconstructing development of the earliest seed integuments raises a new hypothesis for the evolution of ancestral seed‐bearing structures |journal=New Phytologist |volume=229 |issue=3 |pages=1782–1794 |doi=10.1111/nph.16792 |pmid=32639670 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A pollen organ resembling seed fern pollen organs ''Dictyothalamus'' and ''Melissiotheca'' is described from the [[Earth:Lopingian|Lopingian]] [[Earth:Umm Irna Formation|Umm Irna Formation]] (Jordan) by Zavialova ''et al.'' (2020), who interpret this finding as evidence of persistence of [[Biology:Lyginopteridales|lyginopterid]] seed ferns until the late Permian.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Natalia Zavialova |author2=Patrick Blomenkemper |author3=Hans Kerp |author4=Abdalla Abu Hamad |author5=Benjamin Bomfleur |year=2020 |title=A lyginopterid pollen organ from the upper Permian of the Dead Sea region |journal=Grana |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=81–96 |doi=10.1080/00173134.2020.1772360 |s2cid=224931916 }}</ref>
* Evidence of increasing atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentration at the onset of the end-Triassic extinction event, based on data from fossil leaves of the seed fern ''[[Biology:Lepidopteris|Lepidopteris]] ottonis'' from southern Sweden, is presented by Slodownik, Vajda & Steinthorsdottir (2020), who confirm ''L. ottonis'' as a valid proxy for ''p''CO<sub>2</sub> reconstructions.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Miriam Slodownik |author2=Vivi Vajda |author3=Margret Steinthorsdottir |year=2020 |title=Fossil seed fern ''Lepidopteris ottonis'' from Sweden records increasing CO<sub>2</sub> concentration during the end-Triassic extinction event |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=564 |pages=Article 110157 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110157 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the seed cone scales of ''Krassilovia mongolica'' is published by Herrera ''et al.'' (2020), who argue that ''K. mongolica'' and ''[[Biology:Podozamites|Podozamites]] harrisii'' are the seed cones and leaves of the same extinct plant, and name a new family Krassiloviaceae within the order [[Biology:Voltziales|Voltziales]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fabiany Herrera |author2=Gongle Shi |author3=Chris Mays |author4=Niiden Ichinnorov |author5=Masamichi Takahashi |author6=Joseph J. Bevitt |author7=Patrick S. Herendeen |author8=Peter R. Crane |year=2020 |title=Reconstructing ''Krassilovia mongolica'' supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=e0226779 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0226779 |pmid=31940374 |pmc=6961850 |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1526779H |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the microscopic wood anatomy of a fossil tree trunk of ''[[Biology:Agathoxylon|Agathoxylon]] arizonicum'' with the characteristic external features of a fire scar from the Upper Triassic [[Earth:Chinle Formation|Chinle Formation]] (Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States) is published by Byers ''et al.'' (2020), who evaluate the implications of this specimen for the knowledge of the evolution of fire-adapted plant traits.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Bruce A. Byers |author2=Lucía DeSoto |author3=Dan Chaney |author4=Sidney R. Ash |author5=Anya B. Byers |author6=Jonathan B. Byers |author7=Markus Stoffel |year=2020 |title=Fire-scarred fossil tree from the Late Triassic shows a pre-fire drought signal |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20104 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-77018-w |pmid=33208853 |pmc=7676234 }}</ref>
* A putative bamboo ''"Chusquea" oxyphylla'' from the early Eocene Laguna del Hunco biota ({{wipe|Argentina}}) is reinterpreted as a conifer by Wilf (2020), who transfers this species to the genus ''[[Biology:Retrophyllum|Retrophyllum]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Peter Wilf |year=2020 |title=Eocene ''"Chusquea"'' fossil from Patagonia is a conifer, not a bamboo |journal=PhytoKeys |issue=139 |pages=77–89 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.139.48717 |pmid=32076379 |pmc=7010844 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on evolutionary history of conifers as indicated by fossil and molecular data, aiming to determine whether the rise of angiosperms drove the decline of conifers and other gymnosperms, is published by Condamine ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fabien L. Condamine |author2=Daniele Silvestro |author3=Eva B. Koppelhus |author4=Alexandre Antonelli |year=2020 |title=The rise of angiosperms pushed conifers to decline during global cooling |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=117 |issue=46 |pages=28867–28875 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2005571117 |pmid=33139543 |pmc=7682372 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11728867C |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Presence of [[Biology:Plant secretory tissue|secretory tissues]] is reported in extinct flowers from the Cretaceous amber from Myanmar and Cenozoic [[Earth:Dominican amber|Dominican amber]] (including specimens preserved while in the process of emitting compounds) by Poinar & Poinar (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=George Poinar |author2=Greg Poinar |year=2020 |title=The antiquity of floral secretory tissues that provide today's fragrances |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=494–499 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2018.1502288 |bibcode=2020HBio...32..494P |s2cid=92810354 }}</ref>
* Fossil pollen of flowering plants is reported from the [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]] and [[Earth:Albian|Albian]] of {{wipe|Australia}} by Korasidis & Wagstaff (2020), who evaluate the implications of their findings for the knowledge of the timing of the appearance and diversification of the flowering plants in the high-latitude southern basins of Australia.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Vera A. Korasidis |author2=Barbara E. Wagstaff |year=2020 |title=The rise of flowering plants in the high southern latitudes of Australia |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=272 |pages=Article 104126 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104126 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27204126K |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the morphology of palm and palm-like pollen from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] Yaw Formation (Myanmar), and on the implications of these fossils for the knowledge of distribution and diversity of Eocene palms across the globe, is published by Huang ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Huasheng Huang |author2=Robert Morley |author3=Alexis Licht |author4=Guillaume Dupont-Nivet |author5=Friðgeir Grímsson |author6=Reinhard Zetter |author7=Jan Westerweel |author8=Zaw Win |author9=Day Wa Aung |author10=Carina Hoorn |year=2020 |title=Eocene palms from central Myanmar in a South-East Asian and global perspective: evidence from the palynological record |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=194 |issue=2 |pages=177–206 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/boaa038 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Fossils fruits of ''Illigera eocenica'', representing the second fossil occurrence of ''[[Biology:Illigera|Illigera]]'' worldwide and the first in Asia, are described from the Eocene Niubao Formation (central [[Place:Tibetan Plateau|Tibetan Plateau]]) by Wang ''et al.'' (2020), who evaluate the implications of this finding for the knowledge of the climate in the central Tibetan Plateau during the early middle Eocene, and for the knowledge of the floristic links between Asia and North America during the [[Earth:Paleogene|Paleogene]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Teng‐Xiang Wang |author2=Cédric Del Rio |author3=Steven R. Manchester |author4=Jia Liu |author5=Fei‐Xiang Wu |author6=Wei‐Yu‐Dong Deng |author7=Tao Su |author8=Zhe‐Kun Zhou |year=2020 |title=Fossil fruits of ''Illigera'' (Hernandiaceae) from the Eocene of central Tibetan Plateau |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=1276–1286 |doi=10.1111/jse.12687 |s2cid=225029376 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of ''[[Biology:Montsechia|Montsechia]] vidalii'' is published by Gomez ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Bernard Gomez |author2=Véronique Daviero‐Gomez |author3=Clément Coiffard |author4=Abel Barral |author5=Carles Martín‐Closas |author6=David L. Dilcher |year=2020 |title=''Montsechia vidalii'' from the Barremian of Spain, the earliest known submerged aquatic angiosperm, and its systematic relationship to ''Ceratophyllum'' |journal=Taxon |volume=69 |issue=6 |pages=1273–1292 |doi=10.1002/tax.12409 |s2cid=229437758 }}</ref>
* Eocene leaves of members of the family [[Biology:Urticaceae|Urticaceae]] with stinging [[Biology:Trichome|trichome]]s are described from the Okanogan Highlands (British Columbia, {{wipe|Canada}}) by DeVore ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Melanie L. DeVore |author2=Alphonse Nyandwi |author3=Winnie Eckardt |author4=Elias Bizuru |author5=Myriam Mujawamariya |author6=Kathleen B. Pigg |year=2020 |title=Urticaceae leaves with stinging trichomes were already present in latest early Eocene Okanogan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=10 |pages=1449–1456 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1548 |pmid=33091153 |s2cid=225050834 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A revision of the fossil record of the family [[Biology:Nothofagaceae|Nothofagaceae]] from South America is published by Pujana ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Roberto R. Pujana |author2=Damián A. Fernández |author3=Carolina Panti |author4=Nicolás Caviglia |year=2020 |title=The micro- and megafossil record of Nothofagaceae from South America |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=196 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1093/botlinnean/boaa097 |issn=0024-4074 }}</ref>
* A study on the extinction of plants from south polar terrestrial ecosystems during the [[Earth:Permian–Triassic extinction event|Permian–Triassic extinction event]] and on their recovery after this extinction event, based on data from the Sydney Basin ({{wipe|Australia}}), is published by Mays ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chris Mays |author2=Vivi Vajda |author3=Tracy D. Frank |author4=Christopher R. Fielding |author5=Robert S. Nicoll |author6=Allen P. Tevyaw |author7=Stephen McLoughlin |year=2020 |title=Refined Permian−Triassic floristic timeline reveals early collapse and delayed recovery of south polar terrestrial ecosystems |journal=GSA Bulletin |volume=132 |issue=7–8 |pages=1489–1513 |doi=10.1130/B35355.1 |bibcode=2020GSAB..132.1489M |s2cid=210258688 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-3834 }}</ref>
* A study on the impact of ecological disturbances around the Permian–Triassic boundary (from the [[Earth:Wuchiapingian|Wuchiapingian]] to Ladinian) on land plant communities is published by Nowak, Vérard & Kustatscher (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hendrik Nowak |author2=Christian Vérard |author3=Evelyn Kustatscher |year=2020 |title=Palaeophytogeographical patterns across the Permian–Triassic boundary |journal=Frontiers in Earth Science |volume=8 |pages=Article 613350 |doi=10.3389/feart.2020.613350 |bibcode=2020FrEaS...8..609N |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the age of the Paleogene Kanaka Creek fossil flora (Huntingdon Formation; British Columbia, {{wipe|Canada}}) and on its implications for reconstructions of the contemporaneous paleoclimate and paleoenvironment is published by Mathewes, Greenwood & Love (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Rolf W. Mathewes |author2=David Robert Greenwood |author3=Renee Love |year=2020 |title=The Kanaka Creek fossil flora (Huntingdon Formation), British Columbia, Canada—paleoenvironment and evidence for Paleocene age using palynology and macroflora |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=57 |issue= 3|pages= 348–365|doi=10.1139/cjes-2018-0325 |bibcode=2020CaJES..57..348M |s2cid=199896746 }}</ref>
* Evidence from [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] plant fossils from the Bangong-Nujiang suture indicating that the [[Place:Tibetan Plateau|Tibetan Plateau]] area hosted a diverse subtropical ecosystem approximately 47 million years ago and that this area was both low and humid at the time is presented by Su ''et al.'' (2020), who also report that the composition of this flora is similar to Early-Middle Eocene floras in both North America and Europe, but shows little affinity to Eocene floras from the [[Earth:Indian Plate|Indian Plate]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Tao Su |author2=Robert A. Spicer |author3=Fei-Xiang Wu |author4=Alexander Farnsworth |author5=Jian Huang |author6=Cédric Del Rio |author7=Tao Deng |author8=Lin Ding |author9=Wei-Yu-Dong Deng |author10=Yong-Jiang Huang |author11=Alice Hughes |author12=Lin-Bo Jia |author13=Jian-Hua Jin |author14=Shu-Feng Li |author15=Shui-Qing Liang |author16=Jia Liu |author17=Xiao-Yan Liu |author18=Sarah Sherlock |author19=Teresa Spicer |author20=Gaurav Srivastava |author21=He Tang |author22=Paul Valdes |author23=Teng-Xiang Wang |author24=Mike Widdowson |author25=Meng-Xiao Wu |author26=Yao-Wu Xing |author27=Cong-Li Xu |author28=Jian Yang |author29=Cong Zhang |author30=Shi-Tao Zhang |author31=Xin-Wen Zhang |author32=Fan Zhao |author33=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2020 |title=A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical "Shangri-La" ecosystem in central Tibet |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=117 |issue=52 |pages=32989–32995 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2012647117 |pmid=33288692 |pmc=7777077 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11732989S |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study aiming to estimate [[Biology:Specific leaf area|leaf dry mass per area]] in fossil plants from 22 western North American sites spanning the Eocene–Oligocene transition is published online by Butrim & Royer (2020), who evaluate the implications of their findings for the knowledge of the impact of the environmental changes occurring during the Eocene–Oligocene transition on leaf‐economic strategies of plants.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Matthew J. Butrim |author2=Dana L. Royer |year=2020 |title=Leaf‐economic strategies across the Eocene–Oligocene transition correlate with dry season precipitation and paleoelevation |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=12 |pages=1772–1785 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1580 |pmid=33290590 |s2cid=228080873 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]] paleobotanical record and climate in the northernmost part of the Central Andean Plateau, based on data from the Descanso Formation (Peru), is published by Martínez ''et al.'' (2020), who report the earliest evidence of a puna-like ecosystem in the Pliocene and a montane ecosystem without modern analogs in the Miocene.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=C. Martínez |author2=C. Jaramillo |author3=A. Correa-Metrío |author4=W. Crepet |author5=J. E. Moreno |author6=A. Aliaga |author7=F. Moreno |author8=M. Ibañez-Mejia |author9=M. B. Bush |year=2020 |title=Neogene precipitation, vegetation, and elevation history of the Central Andean Plateau |journal=Science Advances |volume=6 |issue=35 |pages=eaaz4724 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.aaz4724 |pmid=32923618 |pmc=7455194 |bibcode=2020SciA....6.4724M }}</ref>
*Fossil fruits (mericarps) of the neoendemic [[Biology:Apiaceae|Apiaceae]] ''Melanoselinum'' (''≡ [[Biology:Daucus|Daucus]]'') ''decipiens'' were reported from the [[Earth:Lacustrine deposits|lacustrine]] and [[Earth:Fluvial processes|fluvial]] sediments of Porto da Cruz, Madeira, dated 1.3 Ma, by Góis-Marques ''et al.'' 2020.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Góis‐Marques|first1=Carlos A.|last2=Nascimento|first2=Lea de|last3=Fernández‐Palacios|first3=José María|last4=Madeira|first4=José|last5=Sequeira|first5=Miguel Menezes de|title=Tracing insular woodiness in giant Daucus (s.l.) fruit fossils from the Early Pleistocene of Madeira Island (Portugal)|journal=Taxon|language=en|volume=68|issue=6|pages=1314–1320|doi=10.1002/tax.12175|issn=1996-8175|year=2020|hdl=10400.13/5323 |s2cid=214067624|hdl-access=free}}</ref> This paper not only reports the oldest ''[[Biology:Daucus|Daucus]]'' s.l. fossil known to date but also the first fossil evidence of a plant with insular woodiness (see [[Biology:Island gigantism|Island gigantism]]).
*The leaf fossil ''Mesodescolea plicata'' from the [[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] of [[Place:Patagonia|Patagonia]], first interpreted as a [[Biology:Cycad|cycad]] with affinities with extant ''[[Biology:Stangeria|Stangeria]],'' is reinterpreted as an [[Biology:Angiosperm|angiosperm]] leaf with affinities with [[Biology:Austrobaileyales|Austrobaileyales]] or [[Biology:Chloranthales|Chloranthales]] by Coiro ''et al.'' 2020,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Coiro|first1=Mario|last2=Martínez|first2=Leandro C. A.|last3=Upchurch|first3=Garland R.|last4=Doyle|first4=James A.|date=2020|title=Evidence for an extinct lineage of angiosperms from the Early Cretaceous of Patagonia and implications for the early radiation of flowering plants|journal=New Phytologist|language=en|volume=228|issue=1|pages=344–360|doi=10.1111/nph.16657|issn=1469-8137|pmid=32400897|hdl=11336/146478 |s2cid=218618827|url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/188092/1/New_Phytologist_2020_accepted-manuscript.pdf}}</ref> with implications for the evolution of leaf shape in the early radiation of the angiosperms.
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of 10 [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] flower taxa (''Chloranthistemon endressii'', ''[[Biology:Dakotanthus|Dakotanthus]] cordiformis'', ''Kajanthus lusitanicus'', ''Mauldinia mirabilis'', ''Microvictoria svitkoana'', ''Paleoclusia chevalieri'', ''[[Biology:Paradinandra|Paradinandra]] suecica'', ''Spanomera mauldiniensis'', ''Tylerianthus crossmanensis'' and ''Virginianthus calycanthoides'') is published by Schönenberger ''et al.'' (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jürg Schönenberger |author2=Maria von Balthazar |author3=Andrea López Martínez |author4=Béatrice Albert |author5=Charlotte Prieu |author6=Susana Magallón |author7=Hervé Sauquet |year=2020 |title=Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm‐wide data set: proof‐of‐concept and challenges ahead |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=10 |pages=1433–1448 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1538 |pmid=33026116 |pmc=7702048 }}</ref>

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