Biodiversity of ecosystems in an arid setting: The late Albian plant communities and associated biota from eastern Iberia

Table 1. (Continued) Taxon Section Known or probable parent affinity Possible preferred environment Equisetosporites barghoornii CA Gymnospermophyta; Gnetales; Ephedraceae Shrub?/xerophytic (lowland, coastal, upland) Equisetosporites multicostatus CA, AP Equisetosporites aff. rousei SJ Equisetosporites spp. SJ, CA, AP Eretmophyllum sp. SJ Gymnospermophyta; Ginkgoales Canopy/xerophytic (lowland, marshes) Eucommiidites minor SJ, CA, AP Gymnospermophyta; Erdtmanithecales Canopy or shrub/xerophytic (lowland) Eucommiidites troedsonii SJ, CA, AP Eucommiidites spp. CA Exesipollenites tumulus SJ, CA, AP Gymnospermophyta; uncertain affinity (Bennettitales, taxodioid conifers) Canopy or shrub/xerophytic (coastal?, lowland?) Exesipollenites sp. SJ, CA, AP Exochosphaeridium sp. AP Dinoflagellata: uncertain affinity Marine Florentinia mantellii SJ, AP Dinoflagellata: Gonyaulacaceae Marine Florentinia sp. CA Foraminisporis asymmetricus SJ, CA, AP Hepaticophyta Ground cover, hygrophytic? Foraminisporis cf. undulatus CA Foraminisporites sp. CA Foveosporites cf. subtriangularis CA, AP Lycophyta Ground cover/hygrophytic (lowland, mires, wet environments) Foveotricolpites concinnus CA Antophyta; non-magnoliid dicotyledon Canopy?/xerophytic? (lowland) Foveotricolpites spp. CA, AP Foveotriletes cf. parviretus CA, AP Monilophyta; uncertain affinities Ground cover/hygrophytic? Fraxinoipollenites constrictus AP Antophyta; eudicots? Canopy?/xerophytic? (lowland) Fraxinoipollenites? sp. A sensu Barro´n et al. 2015 SJ, CA, AP Fraxinoipollenites? sp. B sensu

Barro´n et al., 2015 SJ Fraxinoipollenites? sp. AP Fraxinoipollenites spp. CA, AP Frenelopsis justae SJ Gymnospermophyta; Coniferales; Cheirolepidiaceae Canopy or shrubs/xerophytic (coastal, well drained lowland) Frenelopsis turolensis AP Frenelopsis cf. turolensis CA Ginginodinium cf. evittii SJ Dinoflagellata: Peridinaceae Marine Gleicheniidites cf. bolchovitinae SJ Monilophyta; Gleicheniaceae Ground cover/xerophytic (lowland, pioneer) Gleicheniidites carinatus CA Gleicheniidites laetus SJ Gleicheniidites senonicus SJ, CA, AP Gleicheniidites umbonatus CA Gnetaceaepollenites oreadis AP Gymnospermophyta; Gnetales; Ephedraceae Shrub/xerophytic (lowland, coastal, upland) Granulatisporites infirmus CA Monilophyta; Botryopteridales Ground cover/hygrophytic (wet lowland) Granulatisporites michinus CA Granulatisporites sp. CA, AP Gregussisporites orientalis SJ, CA, AP Monilophyta; uncertain affinities Ground cover/hygrophytic? (Continued) PLOS ONE Late Albian desert biota from Iberia PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282178 March 2, 2023 14 / 51