TY - JOUR
T1 - First Fossil Record of Hypnodontopsis (Bryopsida: Rhachitheciaceae) from the Americas
AU - Estrada-Ruiz, Emilio
AU - Riquelme, Francisco
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by CONACyT (240241) as well as the SIP-IPN (20150435 and 20161352) grants for E.E.R. and the PROMEP-UAEM grant for F.R.
PY - 2017/2
Y1 - 2017/2
N2 - A new record of fossil moss in Miocene amber from Chiapas, southern Mexico, is hereby presented. The fossil moss is assigned to the genus Hypnodontopsis Iwatsuki et Noguchi (Family Rhachitheciaceae) and characterized primarily by narrowly lanceolate to linear leaves arranged in rosettes, with erect costae, and short apiculate leaf tips, with upper cells larger than the lower cells. This sample, for which current worldwide distribution consists of at least three disjunct and geographically restricted occurrences, represents the first fossil record of the genus Hypnodontopsis in the Americas. While Hypnodontopsis is represented by five fossil species known from Eocene Baltic and Saxon amber, extant species are known from Asia, Africa and Mexico. The new fossil specimen most closely resembles the extant species Hypnodontopsis mexicana (Thér.) H. Robins, synonymous with the fossil species Hypnodontopsis conferta (Goeppert and Berendt) J.-P. Frahm. from Eocene Baltic amber. Hypnodontopsis mexicana can only be found in central Mexico (America) and in Uganda (Africa). Accordingly, the distribution of current and extinct species of Hypnodontopsis suggests that the genus diversified in both Laurasia and Gondwana and then suffered extinction by the end of the Paleogene in Europe.
AB - A new record of fossil moss in Miocene amber from Chiapas, southern Mexico, is hereby presented. The fossil moss is assigned to the genus Hypnodontopsis Iwatsuki et Noguchi (Family Rhachitheciaceae) and characterized primarily by narrowly lanceolate to linear leaves arranged in rosettes, with erect costae, and short apiculate leaf tips, with upper cells larger than the lower cells. This sample, for which current worldwide distribution consists of at least three disjunct and geographically restricted occurrences, represents the first fossil record of the genus Hypnodontopsis in the Americas. While Hypnodontopsis is represented by five fossil species known from Eocene Baltic and Saxon amber, extant species are known from Asia, Africa and Mexico. The new fossil specimen most closely resembles the extant species Hypnodontopsis mexicana (Thér.) H. Robins, synonymous with the fossil species Hypnodontopsis conferta (Goeppert and Berendt) J.-P. Frahm. from Eocene Baltic amber. Hypnodontopsis mexicana can only be found in central Mexico (America) and in Uganda (Africa). Accordingly, the distribution of current and extinct species of Hypnodontopsis suggests that the genus diversified in both Laurasia and Gondwana and then suffered extinction by the end of the Paleogene in Europe.
KW - Chiapas amber
KW - Hypnodontopsis
KW - Miocene
KW - Moss
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014447668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5710/AMGH.22.09.2016.3019
DO - 10.5710/AMGH.22.09.2016.3019
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0002-7014
VL - 54
SP - 124
EP - 131
JO - Ameghiniana
JF - Ameghiniana
IS - 1
ER -