2020 in paleobotany

Possibly an early representative of Monimiaceae. Genus includes new species T. toxandra.

Valviloculus{{Cite journal|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr |author2=Kenton L. Chambers |author3=Urszula T. Iwaniec |author4=Fernando E. Vega |year=2020 |title=Valviloculus pleristaminis gen. et sp. nov., a Lauralean fossil flower with valvate anthers from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=359–366 |doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i2.1014 |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Poinar et al.

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

Burmese amber

Possibly a member of Laurales related to the families Monimiaceae and Atherospermataceae. Genus includes new species V. pleristaminis.

=Liliales=

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Smilax fujianensis{{Cite journal|author1=Jun-Ling Dong |author2=Bai-Nian Sun |author3=Ai-Jing Li |author4=Hui Chen |year=2020 |title=The diversity of Smilax (Smilacaceae) leaves from the Middle Miocene in southeastern China |journal=Geological Journal |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=744–757 |doi=10.1002/gj.3882 |s2cid=225790148 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Dong et al.

Middle Miocene

A species of Smilax. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Smilax zhangpuensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Dong et al.

Middle Miocene

A species of Smilax. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

=Magnoliales=

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! Location

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Magnolia nanningensis{{Cite journal|author1=Lu-Liang Huang |author2=Jian-Hua Jin |author3=Cheng Quan |author4=Alexei A. Oskolski |year=2020 |title=Mummified Magnoliaceae woods from the upper Oligocene of South China, with biogeography, paleoecology, and wood trait evolution implications |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=89–100 |doi=10.1111/jse.12480 |s2cid=91861708 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Huang et al.

Late Oligocene

Nanning Basin

A species of Magnolia.

Magnolia waltheri{{Cite journal|author1=Zlatko Kvaček |author2=Vasilis Teodoridis |author3=Thomas Denk |year=2020 |title=The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main, Germany: taxonomy, palaeoenvironments and biogeographic affinities |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=647–703 |doi=10.1007/s12549-019-00391-6 |bibcode=2020PdPe..100..647K |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk

Pliocene

A species of Magnolia. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.

Melloniflora{{Cite journal|author1=Else Marie Friis |author2=Peter R. Crane |author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |year=2020 |title=Melloniflora, a new extinct multiparted flower from the Early Cretaceous of Virginia, USA |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=9 |pages=887–897 |doi=10.1086/710490 |s2cid=224837365 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Friis, Crane & Pedersen

Potomac Group

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Virginia}})

A relative of extant early-diverging members of the Magnoliales. Genus includes new species M. virginiensis.

=Malpighiales=

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! Novelty

! Status

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Salix palaeofutura{{Cite journal|author1=Atsufumi Narita |author2=Atsushi Yabe |author3=Kazuhiko Uemura |author4=Midori Matsumoto |year=2020 |title=Late middle Miocene Konan flora from northern Hokkaido, Japan |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=259–295 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0012 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Narita et al.

Bifuka Formation

A willow.

=Malvales=

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Type locality ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Bastardioxylon{{cite journal \|author1=Johanna Baez \|author2=Alexandra Crisafulli \|year=2020 \|title=Novelties in the xylotaphoflora from Chiquimil Formation (Miocene), Catamarca-Argentina \|journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences \|volume=107 \|pages=Article 102943 \|doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102943 \|s2cid=225109309 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| In press \| Baez & Crisafulli \| Miocene \| Chiquimil \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| Fossil wood of a member of the family Malvaceae. Genus includes new species B. antiqua. \|
Dipterocarpus dindoriensis{{cite journal \|author1=Mahasin Ali Khan \|author2=Robert A. Spicer \|author3=Teresa E. V. Spicer \|author4=Kaustav Roy \|author5=Manoshi Hazra \|author6=Taposhi Hazra \|author7=Sumana Mahato \|author8=Sanchita Kumar \|author9=Subir Bera \|year=2020 \|title=Dipterocarpus (Dipterocarpaceae) leaves from the K-Pg of India: a Cretaceous Gondwana presence of the Dipterocarpaceae \|journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution \|volume=306 \|issue=6 \|pages=Article 90 \|doi=10.1007/s00606-020-01718-z \|bibcode=2020PSyEv.306...90K \|s2cid=228870254 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Khan, Spicer & Bera in Khan et al. \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Deccan Intertrappean Beds \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A species of Dipterocarpus. \|
Echiperiporites germeraadii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Echiperiporites jaramilloi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen produced by members of the genus Hibiscus. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Echiperiporites titanicus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen produced by members of the genus Malachra. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Retistephanocolporites elizabeteae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen produced by members of the genus Ceiba. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Veraguasoxylon{{Cite journal\|author1=Oris J. Rodríguez-Reyes \|author2=Emilio Estrada-Ruiz \|year=2020 \|title=Two new reports of ancient rainforest trees from the Azuero Peninsula, Panama \|journal=Ameghiniana \|volume=57 \|issue=3 \|pages=209–218 \|doi=10.5710/AMGH.22.02.2020.3299 \|s2cid=216250364 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Rodríguez-Reyes & Estrada-Ruiz \| Oligocene-Miocene \| Santiago Formation \| {{Flag\|Panama}} \| A member of the family Malvaceae. Genus includes new species V. panamense. \|

=Myrtales=

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! Novelty

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Eucalyptus xoshemium{{Cite journal|author1=Maria C. Zamaloa |author2=Maria A. Gandolfo |author3=Kevin C. Nixon |year=2020 |title=52 million years old Eucalyptus flower sheds more than pollen grains |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=12 |pages=1763–1771 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1569 |pmid=33274448 |pmc=7839439 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Gandolfo & Zamaloa in Zamaloa, Gandolfo & Nixon

Eocene (Ypresian)

Huitrera Formation

A species of Eucalyptus.

Mangroveoxylon{{Cite journal|author1=Eliana Moya |author2=Mariana Brea |year=2020 |title=Combretaceous fossil wood from Ituzaingó Formation (Late Miocene?), Argentina, indicate a coastal marine environment |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=281 |pages=Article 104270 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104270 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104270M |hdl=11336/142562 |s2cid=224947789 |hdl-access=free }}

Gen. et comb. nov

In press

Moya & Brea

Late Miocene?

Ituzaingó Formation

A member of the family Combretaceae; a new genus for "Menendoxylon" areniensis Lutz (1979).

Myrceugenellites grandiporosum

Sp. nov

Valid

Ruiz, Brea & Pujana in Ruiz et al.

Paleocene (Danian)

Salamanca Formation

A member of the family Myrtaceae. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.

Primotrapa{{cite journal |author1=Ya Li |author2=Yi-Ming Cui |author3=Carole T. Gee |author4=Xiao-Qing Liang |author5=Cheng-Sen Li |year=2020 |title=Primotrapa gen. nov., an extinct transitional genus bridging the evolutionary gap between Lythraceae and Trapoideae, from the early Miocene of North China |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=150 |doi=10.1186/s12862-020-01697-2 |pmid=33183234 |pmc=7661254 |bibcode=2020BMCEE..20..150L |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Li & Li in Li et al.

Late Eocene to early Miocene

Hannuoba

A member of Trapoideae. Genus includes new species P. weichangensis, as well as "Carpolithus" pomelii Saporta (1878) and "Hemitrapa" alpina Su & Zhou in Su et al. (2018).

=Nymphaeales=

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Praenymphaeapollenites{{Cite journal|author1=David Peris |author2=Conrad C. Labandeira |author3=Eduardo Barrón |author4=Xavier Delclòs |author5=Jes Rust |author6=Bo Wang |year=2020 |title=Generalist pollen-feeding beetles during the mid-Cretaceous |journal=iScience |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=Article 100913 |doi=10.1016/j.isci.2020.100913 |pmid=32191877 |pmc=7113562 |bibcode=2020iSci...23j0913P }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Barrón, Peris & Labandeira in Peris et al.

Cenomanian

Pollen of a member of Nymphaeaceae.
Genus includes new species P. cenomaniensis.

=Oxalidales=

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Type locality ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Cunoniantha{{Cite journal\|author1=Nathan A. Jud \|author2=Maria A. Gandolfo \|year=2020 \|title=Fossil evidence from South America for the diversification of Cunoniaceae by the earliest Palaeocene \|journal=Annals of Botany \|volume=127 \|issue=3 \|pages=305–315 \|doi=10.1093/aob/mcaa154 \|pmid=32860407 \|pmc=7872129 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Jud & Gandolfo \| Paleocene (early Danian) \| Salamanca Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A member of the family Cunoniaceae. Genus includes new species C. bicarpellata. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Elaeocarpus nanningensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Xiao-Yan Liu \|author2=Steven R. Manchester \|author3=Andrew C. Rozefelds \|author4=Cheng Quan \|author5=Jian-Hua Jin \|year=2020 \|title=First fossil fruits of Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae) in East Asia: implications for phytogeography and paleoecology \|journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution \|volume=60 \|issue=2 \|pages=456–471 \|doi=10.1111/jse.12684 \|s2cid=234429843 }} \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Late Oligocene \| Yongning Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Elaeocarpus. \|
Elaeocarpus prelacunosus \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Late Miocene \| Foluo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Elaeocarpus. \|
Elaeocarpus preprunifolioides \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Late Miocene \| Foluo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Elaeocarpus. \|
Elaeocarpus prerugosus \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Late Miocene \| Foluo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Elaeocarpus. \|
Elaeocarpus preserratus \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Late Miocene \| Foluo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Elaeocarpus. \|
Elaeocarpus presikkimensis \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Miocene \| Erzitang Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Elaeocarpus. \|

=Poales=

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! Novelty

! Status

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! Location

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! Images

Monoporopollenites scabratus

Sp. nov

Valid

Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito

Miocene

Solimões Basin

Pollen produced by members of the family Poaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Rhizomatites

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Robledo & Anzótegui in Robledo et al.

Miocene-Pliocene

A member of Cyperaceae. Genus includes new species R. cyperoides.

=Proteales=

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Banksia microphylla{{Cite journal|author1=Raymond J. Carpenter |author2=Lynne A. Milne |year=2020 |title=New species of xeromorphic Banksia (Proteaceae) foliage and Banksia-like pollen from the late Eocene of Western Australia |journal=Australian Journal of Botany |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=165–178 |doi=10.1071/BT19110 |s2cid=214113278 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Carpenter in Carpenter & Milne

Late Eocene

A species of Banksia.

Banksieaeidites zanthus

Sp. nov

Valid

Milne in Carpenter & Milne

Late Eocene

A Banksia-like pollen.

Platanus emryi{{Cite journal|author1=Indah Badriyyah Huegele |author2=Robert J. Spielbauer |author3=Steven R. Manchester |year=2020 |title=Morphology and systematic affinities of Platanus dissecta Lesquereux (Platanaceae) from the Miocene of western North America |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=3 |pages=324–341 |doi=10.1086/706453 |s2cid=208566485 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Huegele, Spielbauer & Manchester

Laguna del Hunco Formation

A species of Platanus.

=Ranunculales=

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Cissampelos defranceschii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Del Rio & Su in Del Rio et al. \| Middle Eocene \| Niubao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Cissampelos. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Clematis csabae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Hably \| Miocene \| \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} \| A species of Clematis. \|
Diploclisia praeaffinis{{Cite journal\|author1=Hui Jia \|author2=David K. Ferguson \|author3=Bainian Sun \|author4=Xiangning Meng \|author5=Yifan Hua \|year=2020 \|title=Phytogeographic implications of a fossil endocarp of Diploclisia (Menispermaceae) from the Miocene of eastern China \|journal=Geological Journal \|volume=56 \|issue=2 \|pages=758–767 \|doi=10.1002/gj.3867 \|s2cid=219907004 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Jia et al. \| Late Miocene \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Menispermites bangorensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Cédric Del Rio \|author2=Jian Huang \|author3=Ping Liu \|author4=Wei-Yu-Dong Deng \|author5=Teresa E.V. Spicer \|author6=Fei-Xiang Wu \|author7=Zhe-Kun Zhou \|author8=Tao Su \|year=2020 \|title=New Eocene fossil fruits and leaves of Menispermaceae from the central Tibetan Plateau and their biogeographic implications \|journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution \|volume=59 \|issue=6 \|pages=1287–1306 \|doi=10.1111/jse.12701 \|s2cid=228951072 \|doi-access=free }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Huang in Del Rio et al. \| Middle Eocene \| Niubao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Menispermites haominae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Huang in Del Rio et al. \| Middle Eocene \| Niubao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Menispermites tibetica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Huang in Del Rio et al. \| Middle Eocene \| Niubao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Menispermaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Paleoorbicarpum{{Cite journal\|author1=Meng Han \|author2=Xin-Kai Wu \|author3=Ming Tu \|author4=Tatiana M. Kodrul \|author5=Jian-Hua Jin \|year=2020 \|title=Diversity of Menispermaceae from the Paleocene and Eocene of South China \|journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution \|volume=58 \|issue=3 \|pages=354–366 \|doi=10.1111/jse.12499 \|s2cid=199062171 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Han et al. \| Paleocene \| Sanshui Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Menispermaceae. Genus includes new species P. parvum. \|
Stephania bangorensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Del Rio & Su in Del Rio et al. \| Middle Eocene \| Niubao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Stephania. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Stephania geniculata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Han et al. \| Paleocene \| Sanshui Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Stephania \|
Stephania ornamenta \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Han et al. \| Paleocene \| Sanshui Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Stephania \|
Stephania shuangxingii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Del Rio & Su in Del Rio et al. \| Middle Eocene \| Niubao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Stephania. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|

=Rosales=

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Type locality ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Berhamniphyllum junrongii{{Cite journal\|author1=Zhekun Zhou \|author2=Tengxiang Wang \|author3=Jian Huang \|author4=Jia Liu \|author5=Weiyudong Deng \|author6=Shihu Li \|author7=Chenglong Deng \|author8=Tao Su \|year=2020 \|title=Fossil leaves of Berhamniphyllum (Rhamnaceae) from Markam, Tibet and their biogeographic implications \|journal=Science China Earth Sciences \|volume=63 \|issue=2 \|pages=224–234 \|doi=10.1007/s11430-019-9477-8 \|bibcode=2020ScChD..63..224Z \|s2cid=211028504 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Zhou, Wang & Huang in Zhou et al. \| Late Eocene \| Markam Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Rhamnaceae \|
Crataegus pentagynoides \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk \| Pliocene \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| A species of Crataegus. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020. \|
Hemiptelea kryshtofovichii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Averyanova & Xing \| Paleogene \| \| {{Flag\|Kazakhstan}} \| A member of the family Ulmaceae. \|
Scabrastephanoporites \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Smith et al. \| Eocene (Ypresian) \| \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| Pollen of an eudicot, probably a member of the family Ulmaceae or Cannabaceae. Genus includes new species S. variabilis. \|

=Sapindales=

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Type locality ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Acer dombeyopsis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk \| Pliocene \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| A maple. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020. \|
Acer viburnoides \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk \| Pliocene \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| A maple. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020. \|
Acer vitiforme \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kvaček, Teodoridis & Denk \| Pliocene \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| A maple. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020. \|
Brosipollis reticulatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Smith et al. \| Eocene (Ypresian) \| \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant, probably a member of the family Burseraceae. \|
Choerospondias fujianensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Zixi Wang \|author2=Fabiany Herrera \|author3=Junwu Shu \|author4=Suxin Yin \|author5=Gongle Shi \|year=2020 \|title=A new Choerospondias (Anacardiaceae) endocarp from the middle Miocene of Southeast China and its paleoecological implications \|journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology \|volume=283 \|pages=Article 104312 \|doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104312 \|bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304312W \|doi-access=free }} \| Sp. nov \| In press \| Wang et al. \| Miocene \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Choerospondias. \|
Llanodelacruzoxylon{{Cite journal\|author1=Oris Rodríguez-Reyes \|author2=Emilio Estrada-Ruiz \|author3=Peter Gasson \|year=2020 \|title=Evidence of large Anacardiaceae trees from the Oligocene–early Miocene Santiago Formation, Azuero, Panama \|journal=Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana \|volume=72 \|issue=2 \|pages=Article A300719 \|doi=10.18268/BSGM2020v72n2a300719 \|url=http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/bsgm/index.php/component/content/article/381-sitio/resumenes/cuarta-epoca/7206/2212-7202-A300719_Rodriguez-Reyes \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| \| Rodríguez-Reyes, Estrada-Ruiz & Gasson \| Oligocene–Miocene \| Santiago Formation \| {{Flag\|Panama}} \| A member of the family Anacardiaceae. Genus includes new species L. sandovalii. \|
Manchestercarpa{{Cite journal\|author=Brian A. Atkinson \|year=2020 \|title=Fossil evidence for a Cretaceous rise of the mahogany family \|journal=American Journal of Botany \|volume=107 \|issue=1 \|pages=139–147 \|doi=10.1002/ajb2.1416 \|pmid=31903551 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Atkinson \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) \| A member of the family Meliaceae described on the basis of a fossil fruit. Genus includes new species M. vancouverensis. \|
Parametopioxylon{{Cite journal\|author1=M. Jimena Franco \|author2=Eliana Moya \|author3=Mariana Brea \|author4=Camila Martínez Martínez \|year=2020 \|title=Astroniumxylon, Schinopsixylon, and Parametopioxylon n. gen. fossil woods from upper Cenozoic of Argentina: taxonomic revision, new taxon and new records \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=94 \|issue=2 \|pages=185–201 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2019.97 \|bibcode=2020JPal...94..185F \|s2cid=212737596 \|url=https://zenodo.org/record/4961184 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Franco et al. \| Miocene \| Ituzaingó Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A member of the family Anacardiaceae described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species P. crystalliferum. \|
Psilastephanocolporites hammenii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Smith et al. \| Eocene (Ypresian) \| \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant, probably a member of the family Meliaceae \|
Quinquala{{cite journal \|author1=Steven R. Manchester \|author2=Kory A. Disney \|author3=Kasey K. Pham \|year=2020 \|title=Winged fruits of rutaceous affinity from the Eocene of western North America \|journal=Fossil Imprint \|volume=76 \|issue=2 \|pages=211–216 \|doi=10.37520/fi.2020.018 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Manchester & Disney in Manchester, Disney & Pham \| Eocene \| Clarno Formation Tepee Trail Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Oregon}} {{Flag\|Wyoming}}) \| A fossil fruit with affinities with the Rutaceae. Genus includes new species Q. obovata. \|
Rousea cavitata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|

=Saxifragales=

class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"

Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Type locality

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Corylopsis grisea{{Cite journal|author1=Zack J. Quirk |author2=Elizabeth J. Hermsen |year=2020 |title=Neogene Corylopsis Seeds from Eastern Tennessee |journal=Journal of Systematics and Evolution |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=611–621 |doi=10.1111/jse.12571 |s2cid=214264053 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Quirk & Hermsen

Early Pliocene

Gray Fossil Site

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Tennessee}})

A species of Corylopsis. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Itea polyneura{{Cite journal|author1=Yi-Min Tian |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Tao Su |author4=Shi-Tao Zhang |year=2020 |title=Early Oligocene Itea (Iteaceae) leaves from East Asia and their biogeographic implications |journal=Plant Diversity |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=142–151 |doi=10.1016/j.pld.2020.09.006 |pmid=33997547 |pmc=8103422 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

In press

Huang & Tian in Tian et al.

Oligocene

Huazhige Formation

A species of Itea.

Protoaltingia{{Cite journal|author1=Alex R. Scharfstein |author2=Ruth A. Stockey |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2020 |title=Evolution and phylogeny of Altingiaceae: anatomically preserved infructescences from Late Cretaceous deposits of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=4 |pages=452–463 |doi=10.1086/707107 |s2cid=216212606 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Scharfstein, Stockey & Rothwell

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian)

{{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|British Columbia}})

A member of the family Altingiaceae. Genus includes new species P. comoxense.

=Solanales=

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Physalis hunickenii{{Cite journal|author1=Rocío Deanna |author2=Peter Wilf |author3=Maria A. Gandolfo |year=2020 |title=New physaloid fruit-fossil species from early Eocene South America |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=12 |pages=1749–1762 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1565 |pmid=33247843 |s2cid=227192001 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Deanna, Wilf & Gandolfo

Early Eocene

A species of Physalis.

=Trochodendrales=

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Eotrochion{{Cite journal\|author1=Steven R. Manchester \|author2=Zlatko Kvaček \|author3=Walter S. Judd \|year=2020 \|title=Morphology, anatomy, phylogenetics and distribution of fossil and extant Trochodendraceae in the Northern Hemisphere \|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society \|volume=195 \|issue=3 \|pages=467–484 \|doi=10.1093/botlinnean/boaa046 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Manchester, Kvaček & Judd \| Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Wyoming}}) \| A member of the family Trochodendraceae. Genus includes new species E. polystylum. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Paraconcavistylon \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Manchester, Kvaček & Judd \| Ypresian \| Klondike Mountain Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Washington}}) \| A Trochodendraceae; a new genus for "Concavistylon" wehrii Manchester et al. (2018). Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Trochodendron infernense \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Manchester, Kvaček & Judd \| Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Wyoming}}) \| A species of Trochodendron. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|

=Vitales=

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Yua jiangxiensis{{Cite journal|author1=Wen-Long He |author2=Xiao-Jing Wang |year=2020 |title=A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=757–769 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.12.006 |s2cid=234387044 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

He & Wang

Toupi Formation

A species of Yua. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

=Other angiosperms=

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Aextoxicoxylon kawasianus{{Cite journal\|author1=Ezequiel Ignacio Vera \|author2=Valeria S. Perez Loinaze \|author3=Magdalena Llorens \|author4=Mauro Gabriel Passalia \|year=2020 \|title=The fossil genus Aextoxicoxylon (Magnoliopsida) in the Upper Cretaceous Puntudo Chico Formation, Chubut Province, Argentina \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=107 \|pages=Article 104315 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104315 \|bibcode=2020CrRes.10704315V \|s2cid=210254812 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Vera et al. \| Late Cretaceous \| Puntudo Chico Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A fossil dicot wood \|
Atlantocarpus{{cite journal \|author1=Else Marie Friis \|author2=Peter R. Crane \|author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen \|year=2020 \|title=Multiparted, apocarpous flowers from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal \|journal=Fossil Imprint \|volume=76 \|issue=2 \|pages=279–296 \|doi=10.37520/fi.2020.023 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Friis, Crane & Pedersen \| Early Cretaceous (Albian) \| Potomac Group \| {{Flag\|Portugal}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Virginia}}) \| An early flowering plant, possibly related to the group Austrobaileyales. Genus includes new species A. virginiensis. \|
Carpolithes gergoei \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Hably & Erdei in Hably \| Miocene \| \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} \| A fossil fruit of a flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. \|
Catanthus{{Cite journal\|author1=Else Marie Friis \|author2=Peter R. Crane \|author3=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen \|year=2020 \|title=Catanthus, An Extinct Magnoliid Flower From The Early Cretaceous Of Portugal \|journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences \|volume=182 \|issue=1 \|pages=28–45 \|doi=10.1086/711081 \|s2cid=228939581 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| In press \| Friis, Crane & Pedersen \| Early Cretaceous \| \| {{Flag\|Portugal}} \| An early flowering plant. Genus includes new species C. dolichostemon. \|
Cavilignum{{Cite journal\|author1=Caroline Siegert \|author2=Elizabeth J. Hermsen \|year=2020 \|title=Cavilignum pratchettii gen. et sp. nov., a novel type of fossil endocarp with open locules from the Neogene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, USA \|journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology \|volume=275 \|pages=Article 104174 \|doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104174 \|bibcode=2020RPaPa.27504174S \|s2cid=213393197 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Siegert & Hermsen \| Early Pliocene \| Gray Fossil Site \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Tennessee}}) \| A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossil endocarps. Genus includes new species C. pratchettii. \|
Chainandra{{Cite journal\|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr \|author2=Kenton L. Chambers \|year=2020 \|title=Chainandra zeugostylus gen. et sp. nov., a mid-Cretaceous amber fossil with sagittate anthers opening widely at maturity \|journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas \|volume=14 \|issue=2 \|pages=367–372 \|doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i2.1015 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Poinar & Chambers \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Burmese amber \| {{Flag\|Myanmar}} \| Genus includes new species C. zeugostylus. \|
Cichoreacidites? flammulatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Crotonoidaepollenites echinatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Cyathitepala{{Cite journal\|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr \|author2=Kenton L. Chambers \|year=2020 \|title=Cyathitepala papillosa gen. et sp. nov., a mid-Cretaceous fossil flower from Myanmar amber with valvate anthers \|journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas \|volume=14 \|issue=2 \|pages=351–358 \|doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i2.1013 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Poinar & Chambers \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Burmese amber \| {{Flag\|Myanmar}} \| Genus includes new species C. papillosa. \|
Dasykothon{{Cite journal\|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr \|author2=Kenton L. Chambers \|year=2020 \|title=Dasykothon leptomiscus gen. et sp. nov., a fossil flower of possible Lauralean affinity from Myanmar amber \|journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas \|volume=14 \|issue=1 \|pages=65–71 \|doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i1.897 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Poinar & Chambers \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Burmese amber \| {{Flag\|Myanmar}} \| A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a member of Laurales. Genus includes new species D. leptomiscus. \|
Dinganthus{{cite journal \|author1=Xue-Die Liu \|author2=José Bienvenido Diez \|author3=Yong Fan \|author4=Zhong-Jian Liu \|author5=Xin Wang \|year=2020 \|title=A unique flower in Miocene amber sheds new light on the evolution of flowers \|journal=Palaeoentomology \|volume=3 \|issue=4 \|pages=423–432 \|doi=10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.4.15 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu et al. \| Miocene \| Dominican amber \| {{Flag\|Dominican Republic}} \| A eudicot of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species D. pentamera. \|
Echistephanoporites annulatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Eofructus{{Cite journal\|author1=Gang Han \|author2=Xin Wang \|year=2020 \|title=A New Infructescence of Angiosperms from the Early Cretaceous of China \|journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) \|volume=94 \|issue=5 \|pages=1711–1713 \|doi=10.1111/1755-6724.14591 \|bibcode=2020AcGlS..94.1711H \|s2cid=225166235 \|url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2020endzxb05026&flag=1 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Han & Wang \| Early Cretaceous \| Yixian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An infructescence including a central axis and five fruits resembling Liaoningfructus. Genus includes new species E. liutiaogouensis. \|
Foveotricolporites crassus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Inaperturopollenites microechinatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Ladakhipollenites carmoi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Lambertiflora \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Friis, Crane & Pedersen \| Early Cretaceous (Albian) \| Potomac Group \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Virginia}}) \| An early flowering plant, possibly related to the group Austrobaileyales. Genus includes new species L. elegans. \|
Malvacipolloides diversus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Malvacipolloides echibaculatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Malvacipolloides romeroae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Menatanthus{{Cite journal\|author1=Dieter Uhl \|author2=Khum N. Paudayal \|author3=Sophie Hervet \|author4=Haytham El Atfy \|year=2020 \|title=Menatanthus mosbruggeri gen. nov. et sp. nov. – A flower with in situ pollen tetrads from the Paleocene maar lake of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France) \|journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments \|volume=101 \|issue=1 \|pages=51–58 \|doi=10.1007/s12549-020-00453-0 \|s2cid=226960216 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Uhl, Paudayal & El Atfy in Uhl et al. \| Paleocene (Thanetian) \| \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A eudicot of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species M mosbruggeri. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Mugideiriflora \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Friis, Crane & Pedersen \| Early Cretaceous (Aptian-early Albian) \| Almargem Formation \| {{Flag\|Portugal}} \| An early flowering plant, possibly related to the group Austrobaileyales. Genus includes new species M. portugallica. \|
Phantophlebia{{Cite journal\|author1=George O. Poinar, Jr \|author2=Kenton L. Chambers \|year=2020 \|title=Phantophlebia dicycla gen. et sp. nov., a five-merous fossil flower in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber \|journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas \|volume=14 \|issue=1 \|pages=73–80 \|doi=10.17348/jbrit.v14.i1.898 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Poinar & Chambers \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Burmese amber \| {{Flag\|Myanmar}} \| A flowering plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly related to myrsinoid members of the family Primulaceae. Genus includes new species P. dicycla. \|
Platanites willigeri{{Cite journal\|author1=Adam T. Halamski \|author2=Jiří Kvaček \|author3=Marcela Svobodová \|author4=Ewa Durska \|author5=Zuzana Heřmanová \|year=2020 \|title=Late Cretaceous mega-, meso-, and microfloras from Lower Silesia \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica \|volume=65 \|issue=4 \|pages=811–878 \|doi=10.4202/app.00744.2020 \|doi-access=free }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Halamski & Kvaček in Halamski et al. \| Late Cretaceous (Santonian) \| Czerna Formation \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| Trifoliolate platanoid leaves. \|
Psilaperiporites delicatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Psilaperiporites lunaris \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Ranunculacidites reticulatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Rasenganus{{Cite journal\|author1=Lida Xing \|author2=Lei Gu \|year=2020 \|title=The possible earliest epizoochorous fruit preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=114 \|pages=Article 104498 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104498 \|bibcode=2020CrRes.11404498X \|s2cid=219439641 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Xing & Gu \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Burmese amber \| {{Flag\|Myanmar}} \| A possible epizoochorous fruit. Genus includes new species R. auricularus. \|
Retibrevitricolpites microreticulatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Retibrevitricolporites costaporus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Retibrevitricolporites? toigoae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Retipollenites solimoensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Retitriporites crassoreticulatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Rhoipites alfredii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito \| Miocene \| Solimões Basin \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Pollen of a flowering plant. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Singpuria{{Cite journal\|author1=Deepak D. Ramteke \|author2=Steven R. Manchester \|author3=Vaishali D. Nagrale \|author4=Selena Y. Smith \|year=2020 \|title=Singpuria, a new genus of Eudicot flower from the latest Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India \|journal=Acta Palaeobotanica \|volume=60 \|issue=2 \|pages=323–332 \|doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0017 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Ramteke, Manchester & Nagrale in Ramteke et al. \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Deccan Intertrappean Beds \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A member of Pentapetalae of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species S. kapgatei. \|
Sinoherba{{Cite journal\|author1=Zhong-Jian Liu \|author2=Li-Jun Chen \|author3=Xin Wang \|year=2020 \|title=A whole-plant monocot from the Lower Cretaceous \|journal=Palaeoworld \|volume=30 \|issue=1 \|pages=169–175 \|doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.03.008 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu & Wang in Liu, Chen & Wang \| Early Cretaceous (Barremian–Aptian) \| Yixian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An early monocot. Genus includes new species S. ningchengensis. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021. \|
Varifructus{{Cite journal\|author1=Xuedie Liu \|author2=Liang Ma \|author3=Bin Liu \|author4=Zhong-Jian Liu \|author5=Xin Wang \|year=2020 \|title=A novel angiosperm including various parts from the Early Cretaceous sheds new light on flower evolution \|journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology \|volume=33 \|issue=11 \|pages= 2706–2714\|doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1825411 \|doi-access=free }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| In press \| Liu et al. \| Early Cretaceous \| Yixian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An early flowering plant. Genus includes new species V. lingyuanensis. \|
Wireroadia{{Cite journal\|author1=Xiaoqing Zhang \|author2=Yongdong Wang \|author3=David L. Dilcher \|author4=Steven R. Manchester \|year=2020 \|title=Wireroadia, a new genus of winged fruit from the Cretaceous of Alabama and New England, USA \|journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences \|volume=181 \|issue=9 \|pages=898–910 \|doi=10.1086/710492 \|s2cid=224836733 }} \| Gen. et sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Zhang et al. \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Alabama}} {{Flag\|Massachusetts}} {{Flag\|New Jersey}} {{Flag\|New York}}) \| A winged fruit of a eudicot of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species W. viccallii, as well as W. major (Hollick). \|

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Agathis ledongensis{{Cite journal|author1=Alexei A. Oskolski |author2=Luliang Huang |author3=Anna V. Stepanova |author4=Jianhua Jin |year=2020 |title=Araucarioid wood from the late Oligocene–early Miocene of Hainan Island: first fossil evidence for the genus Agathis in the Northern Hemisphere |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=133 |issue=2 |pages=157–173 |doi=10.1007/s10265-019-01165-z |pmid=31915952 |bibcode=2020JPlR..133..157O |s2cid=210088380 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Oskolski et al.

Late Oligocene–early Miocene

Qiutangling Formation

A species of Agathis

Agathoxylon cozzoi{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia C. Gnaedinger |author2=Ana María Zavattieri |year=2020 |title=Coniferous woods from the Upper Triassic of southwestern Gondwana, Tronquimalal Group, Neuquén Basin, Mendoza Province, Argentina |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=387–416 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2020.1 |bibcode=2020JPal...94..387G |s2cid=216505978 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Gnaedinger & Zavattieri

Chihuido Formation

Araucaria cuneoi{{Cite journal|author1=Robert Noll |author2=Lutz Kunzmann |year=2020 |title=Diversity in fossil Araucaria Juss.: new species from the Middle Jurassic Jaramillo Petrified Forests in Santa Cruz province, Argentina |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung B |volume=301 |issue=1–3 |pages=3–75 |doi=10.1127/palb/2020/0070 |bibcode=2020PalAB.301....3N |s2cid=224978809 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Noll & Kunzmann

Antarctica
(King George Island)

A species of Araucaria.

Araucaria famii{{Cite journal|author1=Ruth A. Stockey |author2=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2020 |title=Diversification of crown group Araucaria: the role of Araucaria famii sp. nov. in the mid-Cretaceous (Campanian) radiation of Araucariaceae in the Northern Hemisphere |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=7 |pages=1072–1093 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1505 |pmid=32705687 |s2cid=225568264 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Stockey & Rothwell

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

{{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|British Columbia}})

A species of Araucaria.

Araucaria fildesensis{{Cite journal|author1=Gongle Shi |author2=Haomin Li |author3=Andrew B. Leslie |author4=Zhiyan Zhou |year=2020 |title=Araucaria bract-scale complex and associated foliage from the early-middle Eocene of Antarctica and their implications for Gondwanan biogeography |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=164–173 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2018.1472255 |bibcode=2020HBio...32..164S |s2cid=89662557 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Shi et al.

Eocene

Fossil Hill Formation

A species of Araucaria

Araucaria huncoensis{{Cite journal|author1=Gabriella Rossetto-Harris |author2=Peter Wilf |author3=Ignacio H. Escapa |author4=Ana Andruchow-Colombo |year=2020 |title=Eocene Araucaria Sect. Eutacta from Patagonia and floristic turnover during the initial isolation of South America |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=107 |issue=5 |pages=806–832 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1467 |pmid=32388874 |s2cid=218582967 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Rossetto-Harris in Rossetto-Harris et al.

Early Eocene

Laguna del Hunco Formation

A species of Araucaria.

Araucaria stockeyana

Sp. nov

Valid

Noll & Kunzmann

Middle Jurassic

A species of Araucaria.

Araucarites pachacuteci{{Cite journal|author1=L.C.A. Martínez |author2=E. Pacheco Huacallo |author3=R.R. Pujana |author4=H. Padula |year=2020 |title=A new megaflora (leaves and reproductive structures) from the Huancané Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Peru |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=110 |pages=Article number 104426 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104426 |bibcode=2020CrRes.11004426M |s2cid=213340202 }}

|Sp. nov

In press

Martínez in Martínez et al.

Early Cretaceous (Berriasian–Valanginian)

Huancané Formation

A member of the family Araucariaceae

Brachyoxylon zhouii{{Cite journal|author1=Zikun Jiang |author2=Hao Wu |author3=Ning Tian |author4=Yongdong Wang |author5=Aowei Xie |year=2020 |title=A new species of conifer wood Brachyoxylon from the Cretaceous of Eastern China and its paleoclimate significance |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=10 |pages=1989–1995 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1755282 |s2cid=219088846 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Jiang et al.

Guantou Formation

A conifer wood. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Brachyphyllum sattlerae{{Cite journal|author1=Maria Edenilce P. Batista |author2=Lutz Kunzman |author3=Artur A. A. Sá |author4=Antônio Álamo F. Saraiva |author5=Maria Iracema B. Loiola |year=2020 |title=A new species of Brachyphyllum from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Brazil |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=57 |issue=6 |pages=519–533 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.23.06.2020.3333 |s2cid=226545919 }}

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Batista et al.

| Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

| Crato Formation

| {{Flag|Brazil}}

| A member of the family Pinidae.

Callialastrobus{{Cite journal|author1=Jiří Kvaček |author2=Mário Miguel Mendes |year=2020 |title=Callialastrobus sousai gen. et sp. nov., a new araucariaceous pollen cone from the Early Cretaceous of Catefica (Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal) bearing Callialasporites and Araucariacites pollen |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=283 |pages=Article 104313 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104313 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304313K |s2cid=225290387 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Kvaček & Mendes

Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian)

Lusitanian Basin

A pollen cone of a member of Araucariaceae. Genus includes new species C. sousai.

Cedrus anatolica{{Cite journal|author=Ünal Akkemik |year=2020 |title=A new fossil Cedrus species from the early Miocene of northwestern Turkey and its possible affinities |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=746–756 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.12.003 |s2cid=230541679 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Akkemik

Early Miocene

Hançili Formation

A species of Cedrus. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Circoporoxylon tibetense{{Cite journal|author1=Guoqing Xia |author2=Ning Tian |author3=Marc Philippe |author4=Haisheng Yi |author5=Chihua Wu |author6=Gaojie Li |author7=Zhiqiang Shi |year=2020 |title=Oldest Jurassic wood with Gondwanan affinities from the Middle Jurassic of Tibetan Plateau and its paleoclimatological and paleoecological significance |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=281 |pages=Article 104283 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104283 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104283X |s2cid=224930021 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Xia et al.

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Xiali Formation

Possibly a member of the family Podocarpaceae.

Comoxostrobus{{Cite journal|author1=Ruth A. Stockey |author2=Gar W. Rothwell |author3=Brian A. Atkinson |year=2020 |title=Late Cretaceous diversification of cupressaceous conifers: a taiwanioid seed cone from the Eden Main, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=5 |pages=529–541 |doi=10.1086/708383 |s2cid=218924040 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Stockey, Rothwell & Atkinson

Late Cretaceous (early Coniacian)

{{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|British Columbia}})

A member of the family Cupressaceae belonging to the subfamily Taiwanioideae. Genus includes new species C. rossii.

Cupressinoxylon klimovii{{Cite journal|author=Nadezhda I. Blokhina |year=2020 |title=Cupressinoxylon klimovii Blokhina, nom. nov. ‒ a new species name replacing Cupressinoxylon biotoides Blokhina, 1989 (Cupressaceae) |journal=Botanica Pacifica |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=196 |doi=10.17581/bp.2020.09218 |doi-access=free }}

Nom. nov

Valid

Blokhina

A member of the family Cupressaceae; a replacement name for Cupressinoxylon biotoides Blokhina (1989).

Cupressinoxylon llantenesense

Sp. nov

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Gnaedinger & Zavattieri

Llantenes Formation

Cupressinoxylon manuelii{{cite journal |author1=César Ríos-Santos |author2=Sergio R.S. Cevallos-Ferriz |author3=R.R. Pujana |year=2020 |title=Cupressaceous woods in the Upper Cretaceous Cabullona Group in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=104 |pages=Article 102756 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102756 |bibcode=2020JSAES.10402756R |s2cid=224884535 }}

| Sp. nov

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| Ríos-Santos, Cevallos-Ferriz & Pujana

| Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)

| Cabullona Group

| {{Flag|Mexico}}

Ductoagathoxylon wangii{{Cite journal|author1=Xu-Dong Gou |author2=Sui Wan |author3=Fu-Guang Zhao |author4=Xin-Shi Cheng |author5=Hai-Bo Wei |author6=Yun Guo |author7=Shi-Ling Yang |author8=Zhuo Feng |year=2020 |title=A new conifer stem, Ductoagathoxylon wangii from the Middle Jurassic of the Santanghu Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=285 |pages=Article 104357 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104357 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

In press

Gou & Feng in Gou et al.

Middle Jurassic

Xishanyao Formation

A conifer stem.

Friisia{{Cite journal|author1=Mário Miguel Mendes |author2=Jiří Kvaček |year=2020 |title=Friisia lusitanica gen. et sp. nov., a new podocarpaceous ovuliferous cone from the Lower Cretaceous of Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=108 |pages=Article 104352 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104352 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10804352M |s2cid=212921077 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Mendes & Kvaček

Early Cretaceous (late Aptian – early Albian)

Lusitanian Basin

An ovuliferous cone of a member of the family Podocarpaceae. Genus includes new species F. lusitanica.

Juniperoxylon acarcaea{{Cite journal|author=Ünal Akkemik |year=2020 |title=A new species of Juniperoxylon from the early Miocene of northwestern Turkey |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=15–26 |doi=10.35463/j.apr.2021.01.02 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

In press

Akkemik

Early Miocene

Hançili Formation

A member of the family Cupressaceae.

Lesbosoxylon kemaliyensis{{Cite journal|author1=Ünal Akkemik |author2=Dimitra Mantzouka |author3=Demet Kıran Yıldırım |year=2020 |title=The first report of Lesbosoxylon Süss & Velitzelos from the early-middle Miocene of eastern Anatolia |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=42 |issue=23 |pages=427–441 |doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a23 |s2cid=222210783 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/42/23 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Akkemik & Mantzouka in Akkemik, Mantzouka & Kıran Yıldırım

Divriği Formation

A member of the family Pinaceae.

Marskea cuspidata{{Cite journal|author1=Andrey O. Frolov |author2=Irina M. Mashchuk |year=2020 |title=Discovery of isolated leaves of Marskea (Taxaceae) in the Middle Jurassic sediments of Irkutsk Basin (East Siberia, Russia) |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=449 |issue=2 |pages=164–172 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.449.2.4 |s2cid=225702863 }}

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Frolov & Mashchuk

Prisayan Formation

A member of the family Taxaceae.

Mukawastrobus{{Cite journal|author1=Ruth A. Stockey |author2=Harufumi Nishida |author3=Gar W. Rothwell |year=2020 |title=Evolutionary diversification of taiwanioid conifers: evidence from a new Upper Cretaceous seed cone from Hokkaido, Japan |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=133 |issue=5 |pages=681–692 |doi=10.1007/s10265-020-01214-y |pmid=32686035 |pmc=7429551 |bibcode=2020JPlR..133..681S }}

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Stockey, Nishida & Rothwell

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian—early Maastrichtian)

A member of the family Cupressaceae belonging to the subfamily Taiwanioideae. Genus includes new species M. satoi.

Piceoxylon yumeniense{{Cite journal|author1=Ling-Qi Zhou |author2=Cuo Peng |author3=Peng Deng |author4=Xiao-Qin Zhang |author5=Guo-Lin Yang |author6=Wen-Xiu Ren |author7=Jun Wang |author8=Xiao-Qiang Li |author9=Shi-Bo Tuo |author10=Bing Guo |year=2020 |title=New records of Early Cretaceous petrified wood in Yumen, northwestern Gansu Province, China and their palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=503–514 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.08.002 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Zhou, Peng, Deng, Zhang & Yang in Zhou et al.

Early Cretaceous

Xiagou Formation

Fossil wood of a member of the family Pinaceae. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Pinuxylon selmeierianum{{Cite journal|author1=Martina Dolezych |author2=Lutz Reinhardt |year=2020 |title=First evidence for the conifer Pinus, as Pinuxylon selmeierianum sp. nov., during the Paleogene on Wootton Peninsula, northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=25–39 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2018-0163 |bibcode=2020CaJES..57...25D |doi-access=free }}

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Dolezych & Reinhardt

Paleogene

Eureka Sound Group

{{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|Nunavut}})

A member of the family Pinaceae described on the basis of fossil wood

Protophyllocladoxylon chijinense

Sp. nov

Valid

Zhou, Peng, Deng, Zhang & Yang in Zhou et al.

Early Cretaceous

Xiagou Formation

Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Tsuga asiatica{{Cite journal|author1=Meng-Xiao Wu |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Tao Su |author4=Qin Leng |author5=Zhe-Kun Zhou |year=2020 |title=Tsuga seed cones from the late Paleogene of southwestern China and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=617–628 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.005 |s2cid=199885815 }}

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Wu & Zhou in Wu et al.

Late Paleogene

A species of Tsuga. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.

Other seed plants

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! Authors

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! Type locality

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Amyelon turpanense{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao Shi |author2=Jianxin Yu |author3=Yuewu Sun |year=2020 |title=Tyloses in the Lopingian cordaitalean root from Xinjiang, Northwest China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=273 |pages=Article 104134 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104134 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27304134S |s2cid=210278581 }}

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Shi, Yu & Sun

Permian (Lopingian)

Wutonggou

A root of a member of Cordaitales

Androstrobus obovatus{{Cite journal|author1=Josefina Bodnar |author2=Eduardo M. Morel |author3=Eliana P. Coturel |author4=Daniel G. Ganuza |year=2020 |title=New plant fossil records and biostratigraphic analysis from the Uspallata Group (Late Triassic) at Cacheuta Hill, Cuyo Basin, west-central Argentina |journal=Geobios |volume=60 |pages= 3–27|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.04.002 |bibcode=2020Geobi..60....3B |s2cid=219762016 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Bodnar et al.

Potrerillos Formation

A member of Cycadales.

Araripestrobus{{cite journal |author1=Leyla J. Seyfullah |author2=Emily A. Roberts |author3=Alexander R. Schmidt |author4=Eugenio Ragazzi |author5=Ken B. Anderson |author6=Daniel Rodrigues do Nascimento Jr. |author7=Wellington Ferreira da Silva Filho |author8=Lutz Kunzmann |year=2020 |title=Revealing the diversity of amber source plants from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=107 |doi=10.1186/s12862-020-01651-2 |pmid=32819273 |pmc=7439571 |bibcode=2020BMCEE..20..107S |s2cid=221183260 |doi-access=free }}

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Seyfullah, Roberts, Schmidt & Kunzmann in Seyfullah et al.

Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)

Crato

A seed plant belonging to the group Erdtmanithecales. Genus includes new species A. resinosus.

Archaeopetalanthus{{Cite journal|author=Serge V. Naugolnykh |year=2020 |title=Archaeopetalanthus progressus gen. et sp. nov. – a new representative of the vojnovskyopsid gymnosperms from the Carboniferous of Siberia (Russia) |journal=Wulfenia |volume=27 |pages=97–113 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345140733 }}

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Naugolnykh

Carboniferous

Listvjanskaya

A member of Pinophyta belonging to the group Vojnovskyales. Genus includes new species A. progressus.

Battenispermum{{cite journal |author1=Mário Miguel Mendes |author2=Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen |author3=Else Marie Friis |year=2020 |title=Battenispermum hirsutum gen. et sp. nov., a new Early Cretaceous seed from Portugal with chlamydospermous organisation |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=109 |pages=Article 104376 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104376 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10904376M |s2cid=213898064 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

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Mendes, Pedersen & Friis

A seed plant belonging to the informal grouping Bennettitales-Erdtmanithecales-Gnetales. Genus includes new species B. hirsutum.

Carpolithus volantus{{Cite journal|author1=María A. Gómez |author2=Gabriela G. Puebla |author3=Mercedes B. Prámparo |author4=Andrea B. Arcucci |year=2020 |title=Fossil seeds from the La Cantera Formation, Early Cretaceous, San Luis Province, Argentina |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=181–198 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0008 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/145016 |hdl-access=free }}

Sp. nov

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Gómez et al.

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

La Cantera Formation

A fossil seed, possibly produced by a member of Gnetales.

Ductolobatopitys{{Cite journal|author1=Domingas Maria da Conceição |author2=Luiz Saturnino de Andrade |author3=Rodrigo Neregato |author4=Roberto Iannuzzi |author5=Alexandra Crisafulli |author6=Juan Carlos Cisneros |year=2020 |title=New petrified gymnosperms from the Permian of Maranhão (Pedra de Fogo Formation), Brazil: Ductolobatopitys nov. gen. and Kaokoxylon |journal=Geobios |volume=60 |pages=47–59 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.04.003 |bibcode=2020Geobi..60...47C |s2cid=219737764 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Conceição & Crisafulli in Conceição et al.

Permian (Cisuralian)

Pedra de Fogo Formation

A gymnosperm described on the basis of fossil wood. Genus includes new species D. mussae.

Filigigantopteris{{Cite journal|author1=Wei-Ming Zhou |author2=Bi-Yun Chen |author3=Wei Sun |author4=Xue-Zhi He |author5=Jason Hilton |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=A new gigantopterid genus from the late Permian of the Daha Coalfield, Tibetan Plateau and its implication on plant-insect interactions |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=12 |pages=3228–3240 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1860033 |s2cid=234390424 |url=https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/a-new-gigantopterid-genus-from-the-late-permian-of-the-daha-coalfield-tibetan-plateau-and-its-implication-on-plantinsect-interactions(6522a667-5362-4c9c-bab2-e7eadfa592e6).html }}

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

In press

Zhou et al.

Late Permian

Nayixiong Formation

A gigantopterid. Genus includes new species F. asymmetrica and F. dahaia.

Ginkgo pediculata{{Cite journal|author1=Sheng-Hui Deng |author2=Xiao-Ju Yang |author3=Zhi-Yan Zhou |year=2020 |title=A new Ginkgo from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning, Northeast China and its evolutionary implications |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=283 |pages=Article 104315 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104315 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28304315D |s2cid=225031049 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Deng, Yang & Zhou

Early Cretaceous

A species of Ginkgo.

Jianchangia{{Cite journal |last1=Yong Yang |last2=Yingwei Wang |last3=David Kay Ferguson |year=2020 |title=A new macrofossil ephedroid plant with unusual bract morphology from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of northeastern China |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 19 |doi=10.1186/s12862-019-1569-y |pmid=32019502|pmc=7001366 |bibcode=2020BMCEE..20...19Y |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

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Yang, Wang & Ferguson

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Jiufotang Formation

A member of Ephedraceae. Genus includes new species J. verticillata.

Johniphyllum{{Cite journal|author1=Cindy V. Looy |author2=Ivo A. P. Duijnstee |year=2020 |title=Voltzian conifers of the South Ash Pasture flora (Guadalupian, Texas): Johniphyllum multinerve gen. et sp. nov., Pseudovoltzia sapflorensis sp. nov., and Wantus acaulis gen. et sp. nov. |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=3 |pages=363–385 |doi=10.1086/706853 |s2cid=208592093 }}

|Gen. et sp. nov

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Looy & Duijnstee

Permian (Guadalupian)

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Texas}})

A member of Voltziales. Genus includes new species J. multinerve.

Jordaniopteris{{cite journal |author1=Heidi M. Anderson |author2=Maria Barbacka |author3=Marion K. Bamford |author4=W. B. Keith Holmes |author5=John M. Anderson |year=2020 |title=Dicroidium (foliage) and affiliated wood Part 3 of a reassessment of Gondwana Triassic plant genera and a reclassification of some previously attributed |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=64–92 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2019.1622779 |bibcode=2020Alch...44...64A |s2cid=199109037 }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Anderson in Anderson et al.

Permian (possibly Lopingian)

Um Irna Formation

A seed fern. A new genus for "Dicroidium" irnensis Abu Hamad et al. (2008); genus also includes "Dicroidium" jordanensis Abu Hamad et al. (2008), "Dicroidium" robustum Kerp & Vörding (2008) and "Dicroidium" bandelii Abu Hamad et al. (2017).

Kaokoxylon brasiliensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Conceição, Neregato & Iannuzzi in Conceição et al.

Permian (Cisuralian)

Pedra de Fogo Formation

A conifer described on the basis of fossil wood.

Nilssonia mirovanae{{cite journal |author1=Jana Čepičková |author2=Jiří Kvaček |year=2020 |title=Two cycads Nilssonia mirovanae sp. nov. and Pseudoctenis babinensis J.Kvaček from the Cenomanian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (the Czech Republic) as indicators of water stress in the palaeoenvironment |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=315–324 |doi=10.37520/fi.2020.025 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Čepičková & Kvaček

Peruc-Korycany Formation

A cycad.

Novaiorquepitys{{Cite journal|author1=Domingas Maria da Conceição |author2=Alexandra Crisafulli |author3=Roberto Iannuzzi |author4=Rodrigo Neregato |author5=Juan Carlos Cisneros |author6=Luiz Saturnino de Andrade |year=2020 |title=New petrified gymnosperms from the Permian of Maranhão (Pedra de Fogo Formation), Brazil: Novaiorquepitys and Yvyrapitys |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=276 |pages=Article 104177 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104177 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27604177D |s2cid=212954578 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Conceição & Crisafulli in Conceição et al.

Permian (Cisuralian)

Pedra de Fogo Formation

A gymnosperm stem. Genus includes new species N. maranhensis Conceição, Neregato & Iannuzzi.

Ovalocarpus butmanii{{Cite journal|author1=Sergey V. Naugolnykh |author2=Valeryi V. Linkevich |year=2020 |title=Artinskian flora (Lower Permian) of the stratotypic area (the Middle Cis-Urals) |journal=Socialno-ecologicheskie Technologii |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=133–150 |doi=10.31862/2500-2961-2020-10-2-133-150 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Naugolnykh & Linkevich

Permian (Artinskian)

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Sverdlovsk Oblast}})

A member of Ginkgoales belonging to the family Cheirocladaceae.

Palaeocupressinoxylon{{Cite journal|author1=Ming-Li Wan |author2=Wan Yang |author3=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=Palaeocupressinoxylon uniseriale n. gen. n. sp., a gymnospermous wood from the upper Permian of Central Taodonggou, southern Bogda Mountains, northwestern China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=117–125 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.06.002 |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Wan, Yang & Wang

Late Permian

Turpan–Hami Basin

A silicified gymnospermous fossil wood. Genus includes new species P. uniseriale.

Phoenicopsis anadyrensis{{Cite journal|author1=Anastasia Zolina |author2=Lina Golovneva |author3=Natalya Nosova |author4=Alexander Grabovskiy |year=2020 |title=A new species of Phoenicopsis (Leptostrobales) from the Maastrichtian–Danian of Chukotka, Russia |journal=Geobios |volume=63 |pages=67–75 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.09.002 |bibcode=2020Geobi..63...67Z |s2cid=228928283 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Nosova in Zolina et al.

Late Cretaceous–Paleocene (Maastrichtian–Danian)

Rarytkin

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Chukotka Autonomous Okrug}})

|A member of Czekanowskiales

Pseudovoltzia sapflorensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Looy & Duijnstee

Permian (Guadalupian)

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Texas}})

A member of Voltziales

Pterostoma neehoffii{{Cite journal|author1=John G. Conran |author2=Jennifer M. Bannister |author3=Uwe Kaulfuss |author4=Daphne E. Lee |year=2020 |title=Pterostoma neehoffii (cf. Zamiaceae): a new species of extinct cycad from the middle Miocene of New Zealand and an overview of fossil New Zealand cycads |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=30–47 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.2019.1653939 |bibcode=2020NZJB...58...30C |s2cid=202847120 }}

Sp. nov

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Conran et al.

Middle Miocene

A cycad

Pteruchus frenguellii{{Cite journal|author1=Patrick Blomenkemper |author2=Hans Kerp |author3=Abdalla Abu Hamad |author4=Benjamin Bomfleur |year=2020 |title=Contributions towards whole-plant reconstructions of Dicroidium plants (Umkomasiaceae) from the Permian of Jordan |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=278 |pages=Article 104210 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104210 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27804210B |s2cid=216248477 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Blomenkemper et al.

Late Permian

Umm Irna Formation

A pollen organ of a seed fern

Pteruchus lepidus

Sp. nov

In press

Blomenkemper et al.

Late Permian

Umm Irna Formation

A pollen organ of a seed fern

Samaropsis jinchangensis{{Cite journal|author1=Yifan Hua |author2=Xuelian Wang |author3=Junlin Dong |author4=Yanzhao Ji |author5=Bainian Sun |year=2020 |title=A number of new seed fossils from the lower Permian of Gansu, Northwest China: implication for research on arils |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=8 |pages=1098–1107 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2019.1566323 |bibcode=2020HBio...32.1098H |s2cid=91993795 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Hua & Sun in Hua et al.

Early Permian

A seed fossil. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming was published in 2020.

Umaltolepis involuta{{Cite journal|author=Natalya Nosova |year=2020 |title=Female reproductive structures of Umaltolepis Krassilov and associated short shoots, buds and leaves of Pseudotorellia Florin from the Middle Jurassic of Angren, Uzbekistan |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=281 |pages=Article 104266 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104266 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104266N |s2cid=219437430 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Nosova

Angren Formation

Umaltolepis sogdianica

Sp. nov

In press

Nosova

Middle Jurassic

Angren Formation

Umkomasia aequatorialis

Sp. nov

In press

Blomenkemper et al.

Late Permian

Umm Irna Formation

A cupulate structure of a seed fern

Wantus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Looy & Duijnstee

Permian (Guadalupian)

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Texas}})

A member of Voltziales. Genus includes new species W. acaulis.

Wudaeophyton{{Cite journal|author1=Josef Pšenička |author2=Jun Wang |author3=Jason Hilton |author4=Weiming Zhou |author5=Jiří Bek |author6=Stanislav Opluštil |author7=Jana Votočková Frojdová |year=2020 |title=A small heterophyllous vine climbing on Psaronius and Cordaites trees in the earliest Permian forests of North China |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=6 |pages=616–645 |doi=10.1086/708814 |s2cid=219926230 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/98939556/708814.pdf }}

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Valid

Pšenička et al.

Early Permian

Taiyuan Formation

A small vine, most similar to pteridosperms from the group Callistophytales. Genus includes new species W. wangii.

Yangopteris{{Cite journal|author1=Weiming Zhou |author2=Shan Wan |author3=Mingli Wan |author4=Jason Hilton |author5=Josef Pšenička |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=Yangopteris ascendens (Halle) gen. et comb. nov., a climbing alethopterid pteridosperm from the Asselian (earliest Permian) Wuda Tuff Flora |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104282 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104282 |s2cid=225462114 |url=https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/yangopteris-ascendens-halle-gen-et-comb-nov-a-climbing-alethopterid-pteridosperm-from-the-asselian-earliest-permian-wuda-tuff-flora(7618b969-88c1-44a5-a3e1-2d1c5a3880bf).html }}

Gen. et comb. nov

In press

Zhou et al.

Permian (Asselian)

A seed fern; a new genus for "Alethopteris" ascendens Halle.

Yvyrapitys

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Conceição & Crisafulli in Conceição et al.

Permian (Cisuralian)

Pedra de Fogo Formation

A gymnosperm stem. Genus includes new species Y. novaiorquensis Conceição, Neregato & Iannuzzi.

Other plants

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Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Type locality

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Annularia paisii{{Cite journal|author1=Pedro Correia |author2=Arden R. Bashforth |author3=Zbynĕk Šimůnek |author4=Christopher J. Cleal |author5=Artur A. Sá |author6=Conrad C. Labandeira |year=2020 |title=The history of herbivory on sphenophytes: a new calamitalean with an insect gall from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Portugal and a review of arthropod herbivory on an ancient lineage |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=181 |issue=4 |pages=387–418 |doi=10.1086/707105 |s2cid=214292984 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Correia et al.

Carboniferous (Gzhelian)

Blasiites huolinhensis{{Cite journal|author1=Ruiyun Li |author2=Xiaoqiang Li |author3=Xuelian Wang |author4=Bainian Sun |year=2020 |title=First fossil liverwort with in situ flask-shaped receptacles from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=119 |pages=Article 104684 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104684|issn=0195-6671 |s2cid=226314562 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Li et al.

Huolinhe Formation

A liverwort belonging to the family Blasiaceae.

Botryopteris multifolia{{Cite journal|author1=Xiao-Yuan He |author2=Shi-Jun Wang |author3=Jason Hilton |author4=Jean Galtier |author5=Hong-Guan Jiang |year=2020 |title=An advanced species of the fern Botryopteris Renault from the Permian of southwestern China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=273 |pages=Article 104136 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104136 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27304136H |s2cid=210266014 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/82924629/Revised_Botryo_multif_manuscript_NO_CHANGES_MARKED.pdf }}

Sp. nov

In press

He et al.

Permian (Lopingian)

Junlian Formation

A fern

Birisia mandshurica{{Cite journal|author1=L. B. Golovneva |author2=A. A. Grabovskiy |author3=A. A. Zolina |year=2020 |title=A new species of the genus Birisia (Dicksoniaceae) from the lower–middle Albian deposits of Southern Primorye, Far East of Russia |journal=Palaeobotany |volume=11 |pages=74–95 |doi=10.31111/palaeobotany/2020.11.74 |s2cid=245112234 |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/a-new-species-of-the-genus-birisia-dicksoniaceae-from-the-lower-middle-albian-deposits-of-southern-primorye-far-east-of-russia }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Golovneva, Grabovskiy & Zolina

Early Cretaceous (Albian)

Frentsevka Formation

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Primorsky Krai}})

A fern belonging to the family Dicksoniaceae.

Calamites cambrensis{{Cite journal|author=Barry A. Thomas |year=2020 |title=A new species of leafy calamite stem from the Pennsylvanian (Bolsovian) of the South Wales Coalfield |journal=Acta Palaeobotanica |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=207–211 |doi=10.35535/acpa-2020-0010 |doi-access=free |hdl=2160/cd78c623-2a50-4c65-a758-7207027deacd |hdl-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Thomas

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

Catenuporella{{Cite journal|author1=Yueyang Zhang |author2=Hongxia Jiang |author3=Yasheng Wu |author4=Hongping Bao |author5=Junfeng Ren |author6=Zhengliang Huang |year=2020 |title=Calcified dasycladaleans from the Upper Ordovician in the Ordos Basin, China |journal=Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=228–237 |doi=10.16087/j.cnki.1000-0674.2020.03.003 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Zhang et al.

Late Ordovician

Ordos Basin

A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales. Genus includes new species C. gigantia.

Charaxis spicatus{{Cite journal|author1=Jordi Pérez-Cano |author2=Telm Bover-Arnal |author3=Carles Martín-Closas |year=2020 |title=Barremian charophytes from the Maestrat Basin |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=115 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104544 |hdl=2445/171586 |s2cid=224875084 |hdl-access=free }}

emend. nov.

Valid

Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas in Pérez-Cano et al.

Barremian

Maestrat Basin

Thallus of Echinochara lazarii. Both taxa has been firstly found anatomically attached

Chlamydomonas hanublikanus{{cite journal |author1=Jan Hinkelman |author2=Lucia Vršanská |year=2020 |title=A Myanmar amber cockroach with protruding feces contains pollen and a rich microcenosis |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=107 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 13 |doi=10.1007/s00114-020-1669-y |pmid=32125545 |bibcode=2020SciNa.107...13H |s2cid=211730431 }}

Sp. nov

Vršanská & Hinkelman

A species of Chlamydomonas

Circinites{{Cite journal|author1=Juan M. Robledo |author2=Luisa M. Anzótegui |author3=Olga G. Martínez |author4=Ricardo N. Alonso |year=2020 |title=Flora and insect trace fossils from the Mio-Pliocene Quebrada del Toro locality (Gobernador Solá, Salta, Argentina) |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=100 |pages=Article 102544 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102544 |bibcode=2020JSAES.10002544R |s2cid=216377729 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

In press

Robledo & Anzótegui in Robledo et al.

Miocene-Pliocene

A fern belonging to the family Pteridaceae. Genus includes new species C. pteridoides.

Clavatisporites cenomaniana

Sp. nov

Valid

Santamarina in Santamarina et al.

Mata Amarilla Formation

Spores of a member of Filicopsida of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.

Clavator calcitrapus var. jiangluoensis

comb. nov

Valid

Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas in Pérez-Cano et al.

Barremian

Maestrat Basin

Clavatoracean species.

Collarecodium? nezpercae

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Bucur & Rigaud in Bucur et al.

| Late Triassic (Norian)

| {{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Idaho}})

| A green alga belonging to the group Bryopsidales and possibly to the family Udoteaceae.

Collarisporites minor

Sp. nov

Valid

Santamarina in Santamarina et al.

Mata Amarilla Formation

Spores of a member of Filicopsida of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it is scheduled to be published in 2020.

Coniopteris sandaolingensis{{Cite journal|author1=Xiu-Cai Yuan |author2=Cong-Hui Xiong |author3=Fan-Kai Sun |author4=Zi-Xi Wang |author5=Teng Mao |author6=Yi-Jie Li |author7=Chun-Hui Liu |author8=Ming-Xuan Sun |author9=Jun-Ling Dong |author10=Bai-Nian Sun |year=2020 |title=The geological significance of a new species of Coniopteris from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=267–280 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2018.1488251 |bibcode=2020HBio...32..267Y |s2cid=89752285 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Yuan & Sun in Yuan et al.

Xishanyao Formation

Dimicheleodendron{{Cite journal|author1=Barry A. Thomas |author2=Christopher J. Cleal |year=2020 |title=The nomenclature of fossil-taxa representing different preservational states: Lepidodendron as a case-study |journal=Taxon |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=1052–1061 |doi=10.1002/tax.12291 |s2cid=225235565 }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Thomas & Cleal

Carboniferous

A lycophyte; a new genus for "Lepidodendron" hickii.

Drynaria diplosticha{{Cite journal|author1=Yang Yu |author2=San-Ping Xie |author3=John Devaney |author4=Si-Hang Zhang |author5=Tian-Yu Chen |author6=Xu Zeng |author7=Bing Wang |author8=Yu Zhang |year=2020 |title=A new species of Drynaria (Polypodiaceae) from the late Miocene of Yunnan, Southwest China and implications on the genus evolution |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=939–949 |doi=10.1007/s12549-020-00429-0 |bibcode=2020PdPe..100..939Y |s2cid=219730737 |url=https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/16135/1/Yu2020_Article_ANewSpeciesOfDrynariaPolypodia.pdf }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Yu & Xie in Yu et al.

Late Miocene

Bangmai Formation

A fern belonging to the family Polypodiaceae.

Echinochara lazarii

comb. nov

Valid

Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas in Pérez-Cano et al.

Barremian

Maestrat Basin

A member of Clavatoraceans.

Equicalastrobus pusillus{{Cite journal|author1=Li Zhang |author2=Yong Wang |author3=Hong-Yu Chen |author4=Lei Han |author5=Yu-Xin Zhang |author6=Wen-Jia Li |author7=Tao Yang |author8=Hao-Jian Wang |author9=Lin Bao |author10=De-Fei Yan |year=2020 |title=New fossil material of Equicalastrobus (Equisetales) and associated leaves from the Late Triassic of Baojishan basin, Gansu Province, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=33 |issue=9 |pages=1522–1533 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1716747 |s2cid=213295920 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Zhang & Yan in Zhang et al.

Baojishan Basin

A member of Equisetales. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming was published in 2021.

Equisetum yenbaiense{{Cite journal|author1=Aye Thida Aung |author2=Jian Huang |author3=Truong Van Do |author4=Ai Song |author5=Jia Liu |author6=Zhe-Kun Zhou |author7=Tao Su |year=2020 |title=Three new fossil records of Equisetum (Equisetaceae) from the Neogene of south-western China and northern Vietnam |journal=PhytoKeys |issue=138 |pages=3–15 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.138.38674 |pmid=31988601 |pmc=6969027 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Aung et al.

Late Miocene

A species of Equisetum

Equisetum yongpingense

Sp. nov

Valid

Aung et al.

Late Pliocene

Sanying Formation

A species of Equisetum

Filippoporella{{Cite journal|author1=Branko Sokač |author2=Tonći Grgasović |year=2020 |title=New dasycladalean alga with unusual two types of laterals from the Palaocene deposits of Konavle, SE of Dubrovnik (Dinarides, Croatia) |journal=Revue de Micropaléontologie |volume=69 |pages=Article 100464 |doi=10.1016/j.revmic.2020.100464 |bibcode=2020RvMic..6900464S |s2cid=226343559 }}

| Gen. et sp. nov

| In press

| Sokač & Grgasović

| Early Paleocene

| {{Flag|Croatia}}

| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales. Genus includes new species F. barattoloi.

Frullania partita{{Cite journal|author1=Ya Li |author2=Yong-Dong Wang |author3=Harald Schnerder |author4=Peng-Cheng Wu |year=2020 |title=Frullania partita sp. nov. (Frullaniaceae, Porellales), a new leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=108 |pages=Article 104341 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104341 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10804341L |s2cid=213553976 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Li et al.

| Quebrada de los Fósiles

A liverwort, a species of Frullania

Frullania vanae{{Cite journal|author1=Yuriy S. Mamontov |author2=John J. Atwood |author3=Evgeny E. Perkovsky |author4=Michael S. Ignatov |year=2020 |title=Hepatics from Rovno amber (Ukraine): Frullania pycnoclada and a new species, F. vanae |journal=The Bryologist |volume=123 |issue=3 |pages=421–430 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-123.3.421 |s2cid=225406886 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Mamontov et al.

Eocene

Rovno amber

A liverwort, a species of Frullania

Gippslandites{{cite journal |author1=Fearghus R. McSweeney |author2=Jeff Shimeta |author3=John St. J. S. Buckeridge |year=2020 |title=Two new genera of early Tracheophyta (Zosterophyllaceae) from the upper Silurian–Lower Devonian of Victoria, Australia |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=379–396 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2020.1744725 |bibcode=2020Alch...44..379M |s2cid=218993880 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

McSweeney, Shimeta & Buckeridge

Late Silurian–early Devonian

A member of Zosterophyllaceae. Genus includes new species G. minutus.

Gmujij{{Cite journal|author1=Kelly C. Pfeiler |author2=Alexandru M. F. Tomescu |year=2020 |title=An Early Devonian actinostelic euphyllophyte with secondary growth from the Emsian of Gaspé (Canada) and the importance of tracheid wall thickening patterns in early euphyllophyte systematics |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=1081–1095 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1335 |s2cid=225425418 }}

| Gen. et sp. nov

| Valid

| Pfeiler & Tomescu

| Devonian (Emsian)

| Battery Point

| {{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|Quebec}})

| An early euphyllophyte. Genus includes new species G. tetraxylopteroides. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Griphoporella minuta

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Bucur & Peybernes in Bucur et al.

| Late Triassic

| {{Flag|Japan}}

| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Triploporellaceae.

Hansopteris{{Cite journal|author1=Weiming Zhou |author2=Josef Pšenička |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Mingli Wan |author5=C. Kevin Boyce |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=A new anachoropterid fern from the Asselian (Cisuralian) Wuda Tuff Flora |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104346 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104346 |s2cid=228855095 }}

| Gen. et sp. nov

| In press

| Zhou et al.

| Permian (Asselian)

| {{Flag|China}}

| An anachoropterid fern. Genus includes new species H. uncinatus.

Holosporella magna

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Bucur & Fucelli in Bucur et al.

| Late Triassic (Norian)

| {{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Nevada}})

| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Triploporellaceae.

Holosporella? rossanae{{Cite journal|author1=Ioan I. Bucur |author2=Sylvain Rigaud |author3=Nicolò Del Piero |author4=Andrea Fucelli |author5=Eric Heerwagen |author6=Camille Peybernes |author7=Giovan Peyrotty |author8=Christian Verard |author9=Jérôme Chablais |author10=Rossana Martini |year=2020 |title=Upper Triassic calcareous algae from the Panthalassa Ocean |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=499–540 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13681 }}

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Bucur & Del Piero in Bucur et al.

| Late Triassic (Norian)

| {{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|Yukon}})

| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Triploporellaceae.

Inocladus{{Cite journal|author1=Steven T. LoDuca |author2=Anthony L. Swinehart |author3=Matthew A. LeRoy |author4=Denis K. Tetreault |author5=Shawn Steckenfinger |year=2020 |title=Codium-like taxa from the Silurian of North America: morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and phylogenetic affinity |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=207–235 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2020.85 |s2cid=228938523 }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

LoDuca et al.

Silurian

An alga related to the group Bryopsidales. Genus includes "Buthotrephis" divaricata White (1901), "B." newlini White (1901), "B." lesquereuxi Grote & Pitt (1876) and "Chondrites" verus Ruedemann (1925). Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Intermurella ordosensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Zhang et al.

Late Ordovician

Ordos Basin

A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales.

Jurafructus{{Cite journal|author1=Li-jun Chen |author2=Ye-mao Hou |author3=Peng-fei Yin |author4=Xin Wang |year=2020 |title=An edible fruit from the Jurassic of China |journal=China Geology |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=8–15 |doi=10.31035/cg2020010 |bibcode=2020CGeo....3....8C |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Chen et al.

Middle−Late Jurassic

Jiulongshan Formation

A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a flowering plant described on the basis of a probable fossil drupe. Genus includes new species J. daohugouensis.

Keraphyton{{Cite journal|author1=Antoine Champreux |author2=Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud |author3=Anne-Laure Decombeix |year=2020 |title=Keraphyton gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia |journal=PeerJ |volume=8 |pages=e9321 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9321 |pmid=32587800 |pmc=7304422 |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Champreux, Meyer-Berthaud & Decombeix

Devonian (Famennian)

Mandowa Mudstone Formation

A member of Iridopteridales of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species K. mawsoniae.

Khasurtya{{Cite journal|author1=D. S. Kopylov |author2=A. P. Rasnitsyn |author3=D. S. Aristov |author4=A. S. Bashkuev |author5=N. V. Bazhenova |author6=V. Yu. Dmitriev |author7=A. V. Gorochov |author8=M. S. Ignatov |author9=V. D. Ivanov |author10=A. V. Khramov |author11=A. A. Legalov |author12=E. D. Lukashevich |author13=Yu. S. Mamontov |author14=S. I. Melnitsky |author15=B. Ogłaza |author16=A. G. Ponomarenko |author17=A. A. Prokin |author18=O. V. Ryzhkova |author19=A. S. Shmakov |author20=N. D. Sinitshenkova |author21=A. Yu. Solodovnikov |author22=O. D. Strelnikova |author23=I. D. Sukacheva |author24=A. V. Uliakhin |author25=D. V. Vasilenko |author26=P. Wegierek |author27=E. V. Yan |author28=M. Zmarzły |year=2020 |title=The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=54 |issue=11 |pages=1221–1394 |doi=10.1134/S0031030120110027 |bibcode=2020PalJ...54.1221K |s2cid=231850225 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Mamontov in Kopylov et al.

Early Cretaceous

A liverwort belonging to the group Marchantiidae. Genus includes new species K. ginkgoides.

Lepidodendron demkinae{{Cite journal|author=Yu.V. Mosseichik |year=2020 |title=Lepidodendron species from the Viséan of the Moscow Basin |journal=Lethaea Rossica |volume=20 |pages=19–33 |url=http://paleobot.ru/pdf/02_2020_20.pdf }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Mosseichik

Carboniferous (Viséan)

Lobatannularia linjiaensis{{Cite journal|author1=Yi-zhi Xu |author2=Ning Yue |author3=Shi Liu |author4=Yi Zhang |author5=Shao-lin Zheng |author6=Yong-dong Wang |author7=Xin-ran Huo |year=2020 |title=Lobatannularia linjiaensis sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic of Benxi, Liaoning |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Sinica |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=329–344 |doi=10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2019.024 |url=http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxb/article/abstract/20200305 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Xu et al.

Middle Triassic

Linjia Formation

A member of Equisetales.

Lygodium sanshuiense{{Cite journal|author1=Sergey V. Naugolnykh |author2=Ming Tu |author3=Xiao-Yan Liu |author4=Jian-Hua Jin |year=2020 |title=A new species of Lygodium (Schizaeaceae) from the Buxin Formation (Paleocene), Sanshui Basin, South China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=606–616 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.003 |s2cid=199101009 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Naugolnykh et al.

Paleocene

Buxin Formation

A species of Lygodium. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.

Metzgeriites kujiensis{{Cite journal|author1=Tomoyuki Katagiri |author2=Hisao Shinden |year=2020 |title=Discovery of a simple thalloid liverwort Metzgeriites kujiensis (Metzgeriaceae), a new species from Late Cretaceous Japanese amber |journal=Hattoria |volume=11 |pages=13–21 |doi=10.18968/hattoria.11.0_13 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Katagiri in Katagiri & Shinden

Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

Tamagawa Formation

A liverwort.

Munieria martinclosasi

comb. nov.

Valid

Pérez-Cano, Bover-Arnal et Martín-Closas in Pérez-Cano et al.

Barremian

Lebanon

Clavatoracean thallus. Formerly known as Charaxis martinclosasi

Neoarthropitys{{Cite journal|author1=Silvia Gnaedinger |author2=Bárbara Cariglino |author3=Ana María Zavattieri |author4=Mariana Monti |author5=Pedro R. Gutiérrez |year=2020 |title=Neoarthropitys gondwanaensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic of Gondwana: An intermediate stage in the anatomical trend of Equisetalean stems |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=282 |pages=Article 104298 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104298 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28204298G |s2cid=225347405 }}

| Gen. et sp. nov

| In press

| Gnaedinger et al.

| Middle Triassic

| {{Flag|Argentina}}

| A member of Equisetales. Genus includes new species N. gondwanaensis.

Osmundacaulis asiatica{{Cite journal|author1=Yeming Cheng |author2=Fengxiang Liu |author3=Xiaonan Yang |author4=Tongxing Sun |year=2020 |title=Two new species of Mesozoic tree ferns (Osmundaceae: Osmundacaulis) in Eurasia as evidence of long-term geographic isolation |journal=Geoscience Frontiers |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=1875–1888 |doi=10.1016/j.gsf.2020.01.019 |bibcode=2020GeoFr..11.1875C |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Cheng et al.

Cretaceous

A member of the family Osmundaceae

Osmundacaulis sinica

Sp. nov

Valid

Cheng et al.

Cretaceous

A member of the family Osmundaceae

Ovoidites circumplicatus{{cite journal |author1=Ana M. Zavattieri |author2=Pedro R. Gutiérrez |author3=Mariana Monti |year=2020 |title=Middle Triassic freshwater green algae and fungi of the Puesto Viejo Basin, central-western Argentina: palaeoenvironmental implications |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=430–459 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2020.1749302 |bibcode=2020Alch...44..430Z |s2cid=219519003 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Zavattieri, Gutiérrez & Monti

Middle Triassic

Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation

A green alga belonging to the group Zygnematales.

Ovoidites tripartitus

Sp. nov

Valid

Zavattieri, Gutiérrez & Monti

Middle Triassic

Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation

A green alga belonging to the group Zygnematales.

Palaeostachya guanglongii{{Cite journal|author1=Li Liu |author2=Josef Pšenička |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Mingli Wan |author5=Hermann W. Pfefferkorn |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=A whole calamitacean plant Palaeostachya guanglongii from the Asselian (Permian) Taiyuan Formation in the Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104245 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104245 |s2cid=219017989 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Liu et al.

Permian (Asselian)

Taiyuan Formation

A member of the family Calamitaceae.

Parazosterophyllum

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

McSweeney, Shimeta & Buckeridge

Late Silurian–early Devonian

A member of Zosterophyllaceae. Genus includes new species P. timsiae.

Patruliuspora oregonica

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Bucur & Rigaud in Bucur et al.

| Late Triassic (Norian)

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| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Polyphysaceae.

Patruliuspora pacifica

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Bucur, Del Piero & Peyrotty in Bucur et al.

| Late Triassic (Norian)

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| A green alga belonging to the group Dasycladales and the family Polyphysaceae.

Pellites hamiensis{{Cite journal|author1=Ruiyun Li |author2=Xiaoqiang Li |author3=Shenghui Deng |author4=Bainian Sun |year=2020 |title=Morphology and microstructure of Pellites hamiensis nov. sp., a Middle Jurassic liverwort from northwestern China and its evolutionary significance |journal=Geobios |volume=62 |pages=23–29 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.07.003 |bibcode=2020Geobi..62...23L |s2cid=225500594 }}

| Sp. nov

| Valid

| Li et al.

| Middle Jurassic

| Xishanyao

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| A liverwort belonging to the family Pelliaceae.

Plenasium (Aurealcaulis) elegans{{Cite journal|author1=P. Hiller |author2=M. Böhme |author3=S. Schneider |author4=J. Prieto |author5=B. Bomfleur |year=2020 |title=Plenasium (Aurealcaulis) elegans sp. nov. from the Eocene of Vietnam – a connecting link in the evolution of modern Royal Ferns (Osmundeae, Osmundaceae) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=703–715 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2019.1683771 |bibcode=2020JSPal..18..703H |s2cid=209573114 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Hiller et al.

Eocene

Na Duong Formation

A member of Osmundaceae

Pleuromeia shaolinii{{Cite journal|author1=Yi Zhang |author2=Yong-Dong Wang |author3=Yue Hong |author4=Liu Cao |author5=Fu-liang Gao |year=2020 |title=Pleuromeia discovered from the Middle Triassic Linjia Formation of Benxi, Northeast China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=706–714 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.02.004 |s2cid=216475501 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Zhang & Wang in Zhang et al.

Middle Triassic

Linjia

Polycingulatisporites multiverrucata{{Cite journal|author1=Patricio Emmanuel Santamarina |author2=Viviana Dora Barreda |author3=Ari Iglesias |author4=Augusto Nicolás Varela |year=2020 |title=Palynology from the Cenomanian Mata Amarilla Formation, southern Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=109 |pages=Article 104354 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104354 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10904354S |s2cid=212976442 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Santamarina in Santamarina et al.

Peñarroya-Belmez-Espiel Coalfield

Mata Amarilla

Spores of a member of Bryophyta of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly of sphagnaceous affinity. Announced in 2019; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020.

Polypodiisporites minutiverrucatus

Sp. nov

Valid

Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito

Miocene

Solimões Basin

Pteridophyte spore. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Polysporia baetica{{Cite journal|author1=Carmen Álvarez-Vázquez |author2=Jiří Bek |author3=Jana Drábková |year=2020 |title=Polysporia baetica sp. nov., a new heterosporous sub-arborescent isoetalean from lower Bolsovian (Middle Pennsylvanian) strata of the Peñarroya-Belmez-Espiel Coalfield (Córdoba, SW Spain) |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=272 |pages=Article 104115 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104115 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.27204115A |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

In press

Álvarez-Vázquez, Bek & Drábková

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

A member of Isoetales

Polystichum pacltovae{{Cite journal|author1=Zlatko Kvaček |author2=Vasilis Teodoridis |year=2020 |title=A new Oligocene fern of Dryopteridaceae from the Českéstředohoří Mts (Czech Republic) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=295 |issue=1 |pages=9–16 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2020/0864 |s2cid=213778635 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Kvaček in Kvaček & Teodoridis

Oligocene

A fern, a species of Polystichum

Proodontosoria{{Cite journal|author1=Chunxiang Li |author2=Robbin C. Moran |author3=Junye Ma |author4=Bo Wang |author5=Jiasheng Hao |year=2020 |title=A new fossil record of Lindsaeaceae (Polypodiales) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=105 |pages=Article 104040 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2018.12.010 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10504040L |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Li et al.

A fern belonging to the family Lindsaeaceae. Genus includes new species P. myanmarensis.

Proterocladus antiquus{{Cite journal|author1=Qing Tang |author2=Ke Pang |author3=Xunlai Yuan |author4=Shuhai Xiao |year=2020 |title=A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=543–549 |doi=10.1038/s41559-020-1122-9 |pmid=32094536 |pmc=8668152 |bibcode=2020NatEE...4..543T |s2cid=211266015 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Tang et al.

Mesoproterozoic
circa 1 Ga

Nanfen

An early siphonocladalean chlorophyte

Psilatriletes cozzuolii

Sp. nov

Valid

Rabelo Leite, Ferreira da Silva-Caminha & D'Apolito

Miocene

Solimões Basin

Pteridophyte spore. Announced in 2020; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2021.

Psilochara monevaensis{{Cite journal|author1=Josep Sanjuan |author2=Ingeborg Soulié-Märsche |year=2020 |title=New charophyte assemblage from middle Miocene lacustrine deposits of Moneva (Ebro Basin, Spain) |journal=Geobios |volume=59 |pages=79–90 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2020.03.001 |bibcode=2020Geobi..59...79S |s2cid=218775725 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Sanjuan & Soulié-Märsche

Middle Miocene

A charophyte.

Qianshouia{{Cite journal|author1=Pu Huang |author2=Le Liu |author3=Lu Liu |author4=Min Qin |author5=De-Ming Wang |author6=Jin-Zhuang Xue |year=2020 |title=A new plant with novel leaves from the Upper Devonian of Zhejiang Province, China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=695–705 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2020.03.003 |s2cid=216265575 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Huang et al.

Late Devonian

Wutong Formation

A plant of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a lycopsid or a sphenopsid. Genus includes new species Q. mira.

Scolecopteris minuta{{Cite journal|author1=Mingli Wan |author2=Wenjun Sun |author3=Jiří Bek |author4=Feng Liu |author5=Christopher Hill |author6=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=Scolecopteris minuta sp. nov., a marattialean fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora of Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104246 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104246 |s2cid=219013492 }}

Sp. nov

In press

Wan et al.

Early Permian

Taiyuan Formation

A fern belonging to the group Marattiales.

Sigillaria pfefferkornii{{Cite journal|author1=Michael P. D'Antonio |author2=C. Kevin Boyce |author3=Jun Wang |year=2020 |title=Two new species of Sigillaria Brongniart from the Wuda Tuff (Asselian: Inner Mongolia, China) and their implications for lepidodendrid life history reconstruction |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=294 |pages=Article 104203 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104203 |s2cid=216296882 }}

Sp. nov

In press

D'Antonio, Boyce & Wang

Permian (Asselian)

Sigillaria wudensis

Sp. nov

In press

D'Antonio, Boyce & Wang

Permian (Asselian)

Sphaerochara miocenica

Sp. nov

Valid

Sanjuan & Soulié-Märsche

A charophyte.

Thyrsopteris cretacea{{Cite journal|author1=Chunxiang Li |author2=Robbin C. Moran |author3=Junye Ma |author4=Bo Wang |author5=Jiasheng Hao |author6=Qun Yang |year=2020 |title=A mid-Cretaceous tree fern of Thyrsopteridaceae (Cyatheales) preserved in Myanmar amber |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=105 |pages=Article 104050 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.002 |bibcode=2020CrRes.10504050L |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Li et al.