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Reassessing the Early Devonian flora from Consthum Quarry (Luxembourg)

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The Early Devonian plant fossil record provides evidence of large vegetation turnover events in addition to rapid morphological and anatomical changes among vascular plants. The Ardenno-Rhenish Massif has historically yielded a vast number of these plant fossils allowing us to obtain a nearly unparalleled snapshot of Early Devonian vegetation. Nonetheless, the interest for describing or redescribing fossil floras from this region has waned in recent years despite their inherent value to understand Early Devonian plant diversity dynamics. Here, we describe a newly collected macrofossil flora from the middle Emsian Schuttbourg Formation at Consthum Quarry (Luxembourg). Six different plant macrofossil taxa were identified, including Drepanophycus spinaeformis and Psilophyton cf. princeps, in addition to putative macroalgal and fungal remains. The flora also includes other equivocal specimens resembling Sawdonia, Huvenia and Zosterophyllum. The composition of the assemblage is extremely similar, at generic level, to older Pragian-early Emsian and coeval floras from nearby localities, which indicates that there was no major floral turnover until the latter part of the Emsian in this region. Taxonomic descriptions also highlight many of the underlying issues in identifying Early Devonian sterile specimens. Inconsistencies in plant fossil identifications from this region call for a thorough revision of Belgian and German floras that together could provide a high-resolution picture of plant diversity changes in the Early Devonian.

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hal-04728337 , version 1 (09-10-2024)

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Eliott Capel, Borja Cascales-Miñana, Cyrille Prestianni, Thomas Servais, Philippe Steemans, et al.. Reassessing the Early Devonian flora from Consthum Quarry (Luxembourg). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2024, 331, ⟨10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105199⟩. ⟨hal-04728337⟩
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