Quantitative relationship of spore and plant assemblages from the Radnice Basin, Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: preliminary results

0550714 - GLÚ 2022 RIV PL eng J - Journal Article
Bek, Jiří - Opluštil, S. - Pšenička, J. - Votočková Frojdová, Jana
Quantitative relationship of spore and plant assemblages from the Radnice Basin, Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: preliminary results.
Geological Quarterly. Roč. 65, č. 4 (2021), č. článku 59. ISSN 1641-7291. E-ISSN 2082-5099
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-06728S
Institutional support: RVO:67985831
Keywords : Pennsylvanian * spores * fossil plants
OECD category: Paleontology
Impact factor: 1.576, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/33055

Dispersed miospore and pollen assemblages are described from the Radnice Basin, Middle Pennsylvanian, Czech Republic. Conversion factors (R-values) were produced by comparing the palynological data with quantified macrofloral data, to relate the percentages of spore/pollen taxa to those of the major plant groups that produced them. Among arborescent lycopsids, the miospore and macroplant counts are more or less equal. In other lycopsids miospores are strongly over-represented, as their macroplant remains were relatively fewer than would be suggested by the proportion of their spores in miospore spectra. Sphenophyll and calamitid macroplants were also relatively fewer than are their spores as a proportion of palynological spectra. By contrast, macroplants of ferns and cordaites are relatively more numerous than are their miospores and pollen in palynological spectra.
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