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 Perinopollenites halonatus CA, AP Gymnospermophyta; Coniferales; Cupressaceae (taxodioids) Canopy/hygrophytic (mire, marshes, river shores, wet lowland) Peromonolites allenensis SJ, CA, AP Monilophyta; uncertain affinities Ground cover/hygrophytic? Phanerosorisporites surensis CA Monilophyta; Matoniaceae Ground cover/hygrophytic (lowland, mires, wet environments) Phanerosorisporites? sp. AP Phimopollenites cf. megistus SJ Antophyta; dicotyledons (Tetracentraceae, Hamamelidaceae) Canopy?/xerophytic? (lowland) Phimopollenites pannosus SJ Phimopollenites pseudocheros AP cf. Phyllocladidites inchoatus SJ Gymnospermophyta; Coniferales; Podocarpaceae Canopy/xerophytic (upland, well drained) Phyllocladidites spp. CA, AP Pinuspollenites spp. SJ, CA, AP Gymnospermophyta; Coniferales; Pinaceae Canopy/xerophytic (upland, well drained) Pliciferasp. CA, AP Monilophyta; Gleicheniaceae Ground cover/xerophytic (lowland, pioneer) Podocarpidites spp. SJ, CA, AP Gymnospermophyta; Coniferales; Podocarpaceae Canopy/xerophytic (upland, well drained) Polycingulatisporites reduncus CA, AP Bryophyta; Sphagnales; Sphagnaceae Ground cover/hygrophytic (marshes, peat bog?) Polypodiisporonites cenomanianus CA Monilophyta; uncertain affinities Ground cover/hygrophytic cf. Psilatriletes circumundulatus SJ Monilophyta; uncertain affinities Ground cover/hygrophytic Punctatisporites couperi CA Monilophyta; Osmundaceae Ground cover/hygrophytic (riparian, mire, marsh)

Reticulosporis gallicus CA Monilophyta; uncertain affinities Ground cover/hygrophytic (lowland) Retimonocolpites cf. crassatus CA Antophyta; uncertain affinity Ground cover?/hygrophytic? Retimonocolpites dividuus CA, AP Retimonocolpites cf. dividuus SJ Retimonocolpites excelsus CA Retimonocolpites cf. Rotundus SJ Retimonocolpites cf. textus SJ Retimonocolpites spp. SJ, CA, AP Retitrescolpites sp. A sensu Barro´n et al., 2015 SJ, AP Antophyta; non-magnoliid dicotyledon Canopy?/xerophytic? (lowland) Retitrescolpites spp. CA Retitriletes austroclavatidites CA, AP Lycophyta; Lycopodiaceae Ground cover/hygrophytic (lowland, mires, wet environments) Retitriletes clavatoides AP Retitriletes sp. SJ, CA, AP Rotverrusporites sp. CA Monilophyta; Osmundaceae Ground cover/hygrophytic (riparian, mire, marsh) Rousea georgensis SJ, CA, AP Antophyta; eudicots Canopy?/xerophytic? (lowland) Rousea cf. georgensis CA Rousea cf. delicata SJ Rousea miculipollis AP Rousea cf. prosimilis CA Rousea cf. scitula CA Rousea spp. CA, AP Ruffordiaspora sp. CA, AP Monilophyta; Schizaeales; Anemiaceae Ground cover, understory, epiphytes/ hygrophytic? (lowland, marshes) Rugubivesiculites sp. CA Gymnospermophyta; uncertain affinity Canopy/xerophytic (upland, well drained) (Continued) PLOS ONE Late Albian desert biota from Iberia PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282178 March 2, 2023 17 / 51