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THE FIRST FIND OF LEPIDOPHYTE OF THE URSODENDRON GENUS IN СARBONIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF THE VERKHOYANYE (NORTH-EAST OF SIBERIA)

A. N. Kilyasov

Diamond and Precious Metal Geology Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia

For the first time a representative of the Ursodendron Radczenko genus was found in carboniferous deposits of the Verkhoyanya (Upper Yana region or Verkhoyanye). It it revealed in the Setachanskaya Formation of the Middle Carboniferous of the Nyimnecheen River (basin of the Sobolokh-Mayan River) of the Orulgan Range (Northern Verkhoyanye) and is relegated to a new species U. nimnecheenense sp. nov. A description of the new species is given.

Keywords: Verkhoyanye, Orulgan Range, paleobotany, Carboniferous system, Setachan Formation, flora, lepidophytes, Ursodendron.

DOI 10.20403/2078-0575-2020-4-3-7