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Leaves of Mirovia Reymanówna are reported from the Middle Jurassic of the Pechora River (Nenets Autonomous Okrug) for the first time. A new species, Mirovia pethiorica sp. nov., is described. That is the northernmost finding of this genus in European Russia.
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Original Russian Text © N.V. Nosova, A.I. Kiritchkova, 2015, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 2, pp. 99–106.
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Nosova, N.V., Kiritchkova, A.I. The first finding of the leaves of Mirovia Reymanówna (Pinopsida) in the Middle Jurassic of the Pechora River (North of European Russia). Paleontol. J. 49, 211–218 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115020057
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