TY - JOUR
T1 - First report of staminate flowers of Calatola (Metteniusales: Metteniusaceae) from the Miocene Mexican amber
AU - Estrada-Ruiz, Emilio
AU - Hernández-Urban, Humberto
AU - Rodríguez-Reyes, Oris
AU - Ortega-Flores, Berlaine
AU - Hernández-Damián, Ana L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Metteniusaceae is a small family with ca. 11 genera that are distributed in the Neotropical and Paleotropical regions. The genus Calatola represents the northern limit of the family in the Neotropics. In this work, we describe a new fossil species of Calatola (Metteniusaceae) from the Miocene Chiapas amber, Southern Mexico, based on several staminate flowers. Calatola verae Estrada-Ruiz, Hernández-Urban, Rodríguez-Reyes, Ortega-Flores et Hernández-Damián sp. nov. is characterized by several actinomorphic unisexual flowers belonging to an inflorescence. It has four petals with adaxially raised midveins, pubescence on both sides of petals, an androecium composed of four stamens, each one of the stamens alternate and adnate to the petals at their base, and with anthers dithecal and oblong. This new fossil species of Calatola represents the first macrofossil record of the genus discovered in Mexico and based on its fossil flowers or inflorescence, provides evidence for a more extensive distribution of the genus in low latitudes in North America during the Miocene.
AB - Metteniusaceae is a small family with ca. 11 genera that are distributed in the Neotropical and Paleotropical regions. The genus Calatola represents the northern limit of the family in the Neotropics. In this work, we describe a new fossil species of Calatola (Metteniusaceae) from the Miocene Chiapas amber, Southern Mexico, based on several staminate flowers. Calatola verae Estrada-Ruiz, Hernández-Urban, Rodríguez-Reyes, Ortega-Flores et Hernández-Damián sp. nov. is characterized by several actinomorphic unisexual flowers belonging to an inflorescence. It has four petals with adaxially raised midveins, pubescence on both sides of petals, an androecium composed of four stamens, each one of the stamens alternate and adnate to the petals at their base, and with anthers dithecal and oblong. This new fossil species of Calatola represents the first macrofossil record of the genus discovered in Mexico and based on its fossil flowers or inflorescence, provides evidence for a more extensive distribution of the genus in low latitudes in North America during the Miocene.
KW - Calatola
KW - Chiapas amber
KW - Flowers
KW - Metteniusaceae
KW - Miocene
KW - Neotropical flora
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U2 - 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104786
DO - 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104786
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85141293659
SN - 0034-6667
VL - 308
JO - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
JF - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
M1 - 104786
ER -