New data on Permian plants of the Pechora coal basin in context of plants and insects coevolution (The collection of the Earth Science Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to new finds of the Middle Permian fossil plants, which are kept at the Earth Science Museum of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The palaeobotanical collections of the museum became significantly enriched by the adding of these new specimens. Some attractive specimens having high scientific potentiality (for instance, equisetophytes Annulina neuburgiana (Radczenko) Neuburg and leptosporangiate ferns Pecopteris anthriscifolia (Goeppert) Zalessky) will be used as materials for exhibitions, and will be involved into educational projects of the museum. Discovery of the leaves of cycadophyte affinity allows to develop the idea on possible migration of the termophylic tropical elements into boreal vegetation of the Angara type.