Mamontov, Yu.S., J. Heinrichs, J. Váňa, M.S. Ignatov
& E.E. Perkovsky. Hepatics
from Rovno amber (Ukraine), 5. Cephaloziella
nadezhdae sp. nov.
Arctoa (2015) 24: 289-293
doi: 10.15298/arctoa.24.25
Light
microcscopy and laser scanning confocal
microscopy were used to investigate a sterile inclusion of a leafy liverwort in
a piece of Late Eocene Rovno amber. The fossil is described as Cephaloziella nadezhdae
sp. nov. The tiny
liverwort resembles extant species of C. subg.
Schizophyllum but differs by its small leaf
cells. Leaf cells with a diameter of ca. 5–8 µm are known from the extant East
Asian species C. microphylla; however, this
species differs from the fossil in leaf shape and insertion, as well as the
presence of acute conical mamillae. Cephaloziella nadezhdae
is the first fossil representative of this subcosmopolitan
genus.