Groenlandia pescheri sp. nov. (Potamogetonaceae) from the Late Oligocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel (Westerwald, Germany)
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Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
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Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstraße 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
 
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Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe RLP, Direktion Landesarchäologie/Erdgeschichte, Niederberger Höhe 1, 56077 Koblenz, Germany
 
 
Online publication date: 2018-06-19
 
 
Publication date: 2018-06-19
 
 
Acta Palaeobotanica 2018; 58(1): 61-72
 
ABSTRACT
The new species Groenlandia pescheri D. Uhl & Poschmann sp. nov., belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae, is described from the Late Oligocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel (Westerwald, Germany). The species is characterized by sub-oppositely arranged leaves without observable stipule-like appendages at the leaf bases and a very thin exocarp (both characteristics of the aquatic genus Groenlandia J. Gay) with a spiked crest (which differs from the only other species included in this genus, the modern Groenlandia densa (L.) Four.). The taxon represents the first pre-Quaternary record of the genus Groenlandia, which is usually regarded as a basal sister group of all other Potamogetonaceae.
 
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