Muscites sp.

Kvaček, Zlatko, Teodoridis, Vasilis & Zajícová, Jana, 2015, Revision Of The Early Oligocene Flora Of Hrazený Hill (Formerly Pirskenberg) In Knížecí Near Šluknov, North Bohemia, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (1 - 2), pp. 55-102 : 58

Muscites sp.

Pl. 1, Fig. 1–3

1961 Muscites sp. ( Hypnum heppii HEER ); Knobloch, p. 249, pl. 10, fig. 1.

Delicate impressions of sterile moss gametophyte plants monopodially branched and covered with leaflet appendages less than 1 mm in size showing thin midribs.

D i s c u s s i o n. The preservational state of the examined moss remains is quite poor, anatomical and morphological details that would allow a more precise identification are not visible. Similar but better preserved are impressions published as Hypnum lycopodioides WEBER by Weyland (1937, p. 69, pl. 9, fig. 1–3) from the upper Oligocene of Rott, Rhineland, and housed in the collections of the Geological-Palaeontological Institute of the University in Bonn, which we could examine personally. The branching pattern seems to correspond to both fossil records. Before the Rhineland material is revisited no definite judgment can be made about the material from Knížecí.

M a t e r i a l. Fragmentary moss gametophytes, NM-G2888, NM-G11514 and a few un-numbered EK specimens.