Jiří Kvaček

National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic · Department of Palaeontology

Pseudoasterophyllites cretaceus from the Cenomanian of Bohemia was recently recognized as an angiosperm by association with stamens containing monosulcate pollen of the Tucanopollis type. New material indicates that the stamens were borne in short spikes, with each stamen subtended by a bract, whereas the carpels were solitary and contained a singl...

The Melbourne Congress of 2011 authorized a Special Committeeon Registration of Algal and Plant Names (including fossils), whichwas established the following year (Wilson in Taxon 61: 878–879.2012). Its explicit mandate was “to consider what would be involved inregistering algal and plant names (including fossils), using a procedureanalogous to tha...

A new cheirolepidiaceous conifer microsporangiate cone Classostrobus archangelskyi is described from the Carregueira opencast clay pit complex near the village of Juncal, in the Lusitanian Basin of central-western mainland Portugal. The plant-bearing horizon belongs to the Famalicao Member of the Figueira da Foz Formation, considered to be of Lower...

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THE PAPER IS IN OPEN ACCESS IN THE URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104486 Amber is fossilized resin that preserves biological remains in exceptional detail, study of which has revolutionized understanding of past terrestrial organisms and habitats from the Early Cretaceous to the present day. Cretaceous amber outcrops are more abund...

Deserts are stressful environments where the living beings must acquire different strategies to survive due to the water stress conditions. From the late Albian to the early Cenomanian, the northern and eastern parts of Iberia were the location of the desert system represented by deposits assigned to the Utrillas Group, which bear abundant amber wi...

The fossil genus Paraphyllanthoxylon is known from many localities around the world. In some cases, the fossilized logs can reach quite large proportions. We present the findings of large fossil logs (the two biggest logs have diameter 98 cm, length minimally 11 meters, estimated height 34 m, and diameter 93 cm, length 7 meters, estimated height 32...

Angiosperm mesofossils are described from the Lower Cretaceous Almargem Formation exposed near the village of Catefica, Portugal, and are thought to be of Aptian-early Albian age. The mesofossil assemblage from Catefica is diverse and, in addition to the angiosperms described here, also contains a rich assemblage of non-angiosperm fossils, includin...

Zamites pateri J.Kvaček is described as a new member of the Bennettitales from the Cenomanian of the Peruc-Korycany Formation, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin in the Czech Republic. It comes from fluvial sediments exposed in the Pecínov quarry. It is compared to Zamites bayeri J.Kvaček from the Peruc-Korycany Formation, from which it differs in having pi...

This complete list of publications of Professor RNDr. Zlatko Kvaček, DrSc. (1937 – 2020) is an addition and supplementary continuation of the memorial volumes of Fossil Imprint (2021/2 and 2022/1) devoted to his work and life. The present list is compiled from three published sources: (1) in Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Ser. B – Historia Naturalis...

Cooksonia bohemica Schweitzer (= Aberlemnia bohemica (Schweitzer) Sakala, Pšenička et Kraft) from Přídolí strata of the Barrandian area in the Czech Republic is revised, and its morphology is documented in detail. The holotype bears sporangia that, although reniform, do not possess a slit that would allow valvate opening as assumed in earlier studi...

A new cheirolepidiaceous conifer Pseudofrenelopsis zlatkoi is described from the Lower Cretaceous (late Aptian early Albian) of the Figueira da Foz Formation in the Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal. The new species is similar to Pseudofrenelopsis parceramosa, but differs in having thinner cuticle, expanded nodal areas and ridged inter nodes. It i...

The paper summarises many years of discussions and experience of biodiversity publishers, organisations, research projects and individual researchers, and proposes recommendations for implementation of persistent identifiers for article metadata, structural elements (sections, subsections, figures, tables, references, supplementary materials and ot...

Two leaf forms are described from the Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous of the Peruc-Korycany Formation in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin in Central Europe. A new foliage genus and species Ascarinophyllum pecinovense Čepičková et J. Kvaček, gen. et sp. nov. is characterised by serrate margins with rounded chloranthoid teeth bearing a papilla. The leaf is...

Pollen morphology and ultrastructure are described for fossil pollen of the Araucariacites and Callialasporites types extracted from a Callialastrobus sousai pollen cone previously reported from the Lower Cretaceous Almargem Formation near the village of Catefica, in the Estremadura region, western Portugal. Pollen grains were studied with transmit...

This joint statement aims at encouraging all authors, publishers and editors involved in scientific publishing to give the bibliographic source of the authorities of taxonomic names. This initiative, written by members of the three communities, has been approved by the executive boards of the SPNHC (Society for the Preservation of Natural History C...

An exceptionally well-preserved Cenomanian flora is found in the Pecínov quarry, excavated into the Peruc-Korycany Formation of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. The strata contain fossils of terrestrial to marine-influenced vegetation, represented by five sedimentary (facies) units: small, braided river (U1), large tidally-influenced braided river...

Shoots of cheirolepidiaceous conifers assigned to the fossil genus Frenelopsis are very common in Portuguese Early Cretaceous mesofossil floras. In this study, a new cheirolepidiaceous conifer Frenelopsis antunesii is described from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Aptian –lower Albian) of Figueira da Foz Formation at the Carregueira site, close to the...

A specimen of Araucaria fricii is described from the upper part of the Teplice Formation in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It extends the first occurrence of A. fricii from the mid-Coniacian back to the early Coniacian. Found in the Radovesice locality near Kučlín in the northern part of the Czech Republic, it is characterised by a deltoid cone sca...

Late Cretaceous mesofossils are described from the Zliv-Řídká Blana locality in the South Bohemian Basins, the Czech Republic. Angiosperm remains dominate the fossil assemblage both in terms of taxonomic diversity and quantitatively, with about 65 different species based on about 1,000 specimens of flowers, fruits and seeds. There are surprisingly...

Conservtaion proposal for Steinhauera C.Presl frequently used name of a fossil relative of sweetgum, against Steinhauera Göpp. (fossil Monilophyta).

Neutron tomographic reconstructions, macrophotography, transmitted light microscopy and fluorescence microscopy are employed to assess the quality of organic preservation, determine organ associations, identify insect damage, and document fungal interactions with selected Santonian–lower Campanian plant fossils from the northern Kristianstad Basin,...

Premise of research. Accumulating data from phylogenetic analyses of living taxa and from paleobotany (pollen, leaves, and floral structures) has greatly improved our understanding of the Cretaceous rise to dominance of the angiosperms. Relatives of the near-basal family Chloranthaceae were conspicuous in the Early Cretaceous. These include female...

A new cheirolepidiaceous conifer Watsoniocladus cunhae sp. nov. J.Kvaček et M.M.Mendes is described from the Early Cretaceous of Catefica in the Lusitanian Basin, Estremadura region, western Portugal. The new species Watsoniocladus cunhae has been established based on sterile twigs showing decussately arranged s-shaped leaves equipped with stomata...

Plant cuticle is an important component in the palaeoenvironmental detection system. This study aims to analyse the relationship between micromorphological structures of plant cuticles and their environmental requirements. The newly described taxon Nilssonia mirovanae sp. nov. comes from the Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian of the Bohemian Cretaceous ba...

The Turonian–Coniacian continental fossil record in Europe is scarce. Here we present a new fossil assemblage of early Coniacian age that was systematically collected from the coal-bearing Gosau Group of the Tiefengraben locality near St. Wolfgang, Austria. The diverse assemblage is composed of at least 60 taxa including sporomorphs and Normapolles...

Selected articles of the Shenzen Code

This Catalogue is the second revised and expanded edition of the first edition, published in 1997 by J. Kvaček and Straková. The material presented in the original edition was completely nomenclaturally revised and newly photodocumented. This second edition provides as much updated information as it was possible to acquire. The Catalogue includes a...

The sedimentology, geochemistry and paleontology of the pelagic upper Campanian Maastrichtian Bozova Formation in the "Mazidag" (Mazıdağı) - Mardin area, SE Turkey, reveal paleoceanographic and paleoecological changes for the first time. A 119.25 m-thick composite stratigraphic section is characterized by alternating marls, clayey limestones, shale...

ABSTRACT Data of climate-sensitive leaf traits, which are usually collected and analyzed for entire fossil leaf assemblages, also include intraspecific responses to environmental conditions. Intraspecific correlations between climate and leaf traits represent plastic responses on the individual level as well as plasticity caused by genetic differen...

Nilssonia mirovanae sp. nov. is described from the Late Cretaceous Cenomanian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It comes from the best-exposed portion of the Peruc-Korycany Formation, in the Pecínov quarry, west of Prague, the Czech Republic. Although preserved only as a fragment of a pinna, it clearly shows haplocheilic stomata. In this paper, we...

Late Cretaceous plants from the North Sudetic Basin (Lower Silesia, south-western Poland) are reviewed on the basis of megaflora from 17 localities (270 identifiable specimens), mesoflora from two localities, and microflora from four localities. Major sites are Rakowice Małe and Bolesławiec. Eight megafloral assemblages are distinguished (Assemblag...

Mesofossils from the Upper Cretaceous of Lower Silesia are escribed from the Nowogrodziec Member of the Czerna Formation. The vestigated strata are part of the North Sudetic Synclinorium and are of either late Coniacian or early Santonian age. The flora comprises egaspores of lycophytes, conifer and angiosperm mesofossils, and insect-related fossil...

A new araucariaceous pollen cone Callialastrobus sousai gen. et sp. nov. is described from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) Catefica mesofossil flora in the Lusitanian Basin, Estremadura region, western Portugal. The material comprises a single dispersed pollen cone showing peltate deltoid microsporophylls arranged in a helix. Each m...

Three types of charcoalified fossil homoxylous woods are described from the Upper Cretaceous of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin: Podocarpoxylon sp.,?Podocarpoxylon vel Taxodioxylon sp. and Protocupressinoxylon sp. They come from the uppermost part of the Peruc-Korycany Formation, which is mid-Cenomanian in age. Podocarpoxylon sp. shows distinct growt...

Flowering plants, the angiosperms, are the most diverse group of plants on our planet. Today, they dominate most vegetation types, but their origin continues to remain a mystery. However, we continue to gain knowledge about their early evolution and history. It seems increasingly probable that their origin is associated with climatic and environmen...

Successful evolutionary forms are characterized by their longevity in the fossil record. There are many plant groups that exhibit these traits; here we have selected the ferns as one acknowledged evolutionary model. Ferns are the most successful cryptogamic plants in geologic history and are known from nearly all fossil floras since their first app...

Massive changes in terrestrial paleoecology occurred during the Devonian. This period saw the evolution of both seed plants (e.g., Elkinsia and Moresnetia), fully laminate∗ leaves and wood. Wood evolved independently in different plant groups during the Middle Devonian (arborescent lycopsids, cladoxylopsids, and progymnosperms) resulting in the evo...

Evolution of terrestrial plants, the first vascular plants, the first trees, and then whole forest ecosystems had far reaching consequences for Earth system dynamics. These innovations are considered important moments in the evolution of the atmosphere, biosphere, and oceans, even if the effects might have lagged by hundreds of thousands or million...

A new small elongate ovuliferous cone, Friisia lusitanica gen. et sp. nov., assigned to the Podocarpaceae is described from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Aptian – lower Albian) of Catefica site near the locality of Torres Vedras in the Estremadura region, western Portugal, based on a single specimen. The new fossil cone Friisia lusitanica shows decus...

A preliminary revision of the palynological collection of Professor Blanka Pacltová was carried out considering samples from the middle Cenomanian of the Peruc-Korycany Formation, the basal most member of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (the Czech Republic). This collection is mainly composed of slides with palynological residues for light microscope...

Flowers and fruits of Zlivifructus microtriasseris, originally described as Caryanthus microtriasseris from the late Turonian to Santonian of the South Bohemian Basins and the late Coniacian to early Santonian of the North Sudetic Basin, are reinterpreted here. Zlivifructus microtriasseris is represented by small, flat fruits, round in outline with...

A new fossil conifer Araucaria rothwellii J.Kvaček from the Campanian-Maastrichtian marine sediments of the Bozova Formation in southeastern Turkey is described based on leaf compressions and leaf impressions. The new species is characterized by twigs possessing helically arranged broadly lanceolate leaves with attenuate apexes and slightly narrowe...

Hazards and disasters have occurred throughout Earth's History and thus the geological record is an important resource for understanding future hazards and disasters and its Impact. The Earth Science Group (ESG) of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) carried out a “Hazard and Disaster Event Survey” to identify Earth Science coll...

Leaves are the most appropriate plant organs for studying adaptations to environmental changes as they are the locations of photosynthetic metabolism and thus directly exposed to habitat conditions. Besides investigations on complete assemblages, individual long-ranging species could directly mirror adaptations and changes of leaf traits on environ...

Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT or microtomography) is a non-destructive imaging technique using X-rays which allows the digitisation of an object in three dimensions. The ability of micro-CT imaging to visualise both internal and external features of an object, without destroying the specimen, makes the technique ideal for the digitisation of...

Hazards and disasters have occurred throughout Earth's History and thus the geological record is an important resource for understanding future hazards and disasters. The Earth Science Group (ESG) of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) carried ‡ § | ¶ # ¤ «,» ˄ ˅ ‡ ¦ ‡ © Tilley L et al. This is an open access article distributed...

Plant mega- and microfossils are described from the middle Sheinwoodian of the Barrandian area. The material comes from the Loděnice locality and the same horizon as the earliest unequivocal land plant, Cooksonia barrandei LIBERTÍN, J.KVAČEK, BEK, ŽÁRSKÝ et ŠTORCH. Its age (432 Myr) is inferred from the associated graptolite fauna, including the zo...

Several mesofossil fl oras discovered in the Early Cretaceous rocks from the Lusitanian Basin of western Portugal comprise numerous well-preserved conifer remains. Here we report the occurrence of four conifer types in the mesofossil flora from the Catefi ca locality, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras in the Estremadura region on the western Portug...

In this contribution, plant mega- and meso- fossils from the Peruc-Korycany Formation of the eastern part of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin are described. They come from ocalities near the villages of Perálec (temporary outcrop of a sewage treatment plant west of the village) and Doly u Luže permanent outcrop in steep bank of a creek running through...

The Cupressaceae conifer Stutzeliastrobus bohemicus (Bayer) J.Kvaček comb. nov. is described from the Cenomanian Peruc-Korycany Formation of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It is characterised by elongate ovuliferous cones with helically arranged thin, bilaterally symmetrical ovuliferous bract-scale complexes, bearing two to four winged elongate ovo...

The Cupressaceae conifer Stutzeliastrobus bohemicus (Bayer) J.Kvaček comb. nov. is described from the Cenomanian Peruc-Korycany Formation of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It is characterised by elongate ovuliferous cones with helically arranged thin, bilaterally symmetrical ovuliferous bract-scale complexes, bearing two to four winged elongate ovo...

Araucarian pollen cones Rabagostrobus hispanicus gen. et sp. nov. and their associated foliage Brachyphyllum obesum Heer are described from Lower Cretaceous (Albian) strata of northern Spain. Male cones consist of helically arranged microsporophylls bearing 5–8 elongate pollen sacs with in situ inaperturate Araucariacites‐type pollen. The new taxon...

The colonization of land by vascular plants is an extremely important phase in Earth’s life history. This key evolutionary process is thought to have begun during the Middle Cambrian1 period and culminated in the Silurian/Early Devonian period (interval about 509–393 million years ago (Ma)), and is documented primarily by microfossils (that is, by...

Figures of Cooksonia barrandei

Morphometric characters of fossil leaves such as size and shape are important and widely used sources for reconstructing palaeoenvironments. Various tools, including CLAMP or Leaf Margin Analysis, utilize leaf traits as input parameters for estimating palaeoclimate, mostly based on correlations between traits and climate parameters of extant plants...

An anatomically preserved fossil fruit Allericarpus parvivalvis (Bayer) J. Kvaček et Heřmanová comb. nov. is described from the Coniacian of Březno (Březno Formation), from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Its morphology is characterised based on x-ray and SEM studies. It shows a pentamerous fruit consisting of loculicidally dehiscent capsules. The f...

Computed tomography provides 3D information of inner structures of investigated objects. The obtained information is, however, strongly dependent on the used radiation type. It is known that as X-rays interact with electron cloud and neutrons with atomic nucleus, the obtained data often provide different contrast of sample structures. In this work...

New Normapolles reproductive structures are described from several Late Cretaceous stratigraphic horizons of central and western Europe: the Klikov Formation (late Turonian–Santonian), the Aachen Formation (Santonian) and the Walbeck Formation (Maastrichtian). They are assigned to a new genus, Zlivifructus, containing three new species, Zlivifructu...