The N. S. Snigirevskaya’s collections of fossil plants in Komarov Botanical Institute with an account of her life and work


S. M.Snigirevsky, A. P. Lyubarova


DOI: https://doi.org/10.31111/palaeobotany/2021.12.5


Annotation

A catalogue of fossil plants collected and/or described by the famous Russian palaeobotanist, an employee of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, Natalia Snigirevskaya is presented. The materials are stored in the Laboratory of Palaeobotany of the BIN RAS. References are provided to publications based on these collections. The catalogue is accompanied by images of some holotypes made with modern equipment. A short essay on the life and work of Natalia Snigirevskaya precedes the catalogue.


Key words: palaeobotany, catalogue of fossil plants, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, N. S. Snigirevskaya


Section: Articles


How to cite

Snigirevsky S. M., Lyubarova A. P. 2021. The N. S. Snigirevskaya’s collections of fossil plants in Komarov Botanical Institute with an account of her life and work. Palaeobotany, 12: 5–33. https://doi.org/10.31111/palaeobotany/2021.12.5


Received 12.05.2021; accepted for publication 20.11.2021


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Snigirevskaya, N. S. 1993b. New data supporting the classification of Orestovia voronejiensis T. Ishchenko et A. Ishchenko (Middle Devonian, Voronezh anteclise) with higher plants. – Paleontological Journal, 4: 133–137. (in Russian with English abstract).

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Snigirevskaya, N.S. 2012. The importance of the palaeobotanical analysis of detritus inside volcanic pipe craters (the Arkhangelsk Region, Russia). – Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 97(11): 1459–1471. (in Russian with English abstract). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1234567812110092

Snigirevskaya, N.S. 2014. The volcanic origin of the Tunguska explosion and its importance for understan­ding the history of plant landscapes in the Middle Siberia (Russia). – Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 99(7): 749–755. (in Russian with English abstract). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1234567814070027

Snigirevskaya, N. S., Bogdanova, L. A. 1992. Finding of stomata and xylem in plants of the genus Barsassia (Asteroxylaceae, Lycopodiophyta) from the Middle Devonian of the Kuznetsk Basin and some questions of the stomatographic study of ancient plants. – Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 77(1): 58–66. (in Russian).

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Snigirevskaya, N. S., Kuznetsova, A. A., Goganova, L. A. 1999b. Fossil tropical fern Asterochlaenopsis kirgisica (Stenzel) Sahni in the Lower Carboniferous of the Central Kazakhstan. – Toporkovskie chteniya, 4: 447–453. (in Russian with English abstract).

Snigirevskaya, N., Lemoigne, I. 1990. Nouveau gisement dévonien à Callixylon dans le centre de la Sibérie. Conséquences pour la phytogéographie, la climatologie et les relations continentales au Dévonien supérieur. – C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, ser. II, 311: 1557–1562.

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Snigirevskaya, N. S., Mogutcheva, N. K. 2010. Petrified fossil root Chromorhiza gen. n. (Pinopsida incertae sedis) in the Triassic of Plateau Putorana (Tunguska syneclise) and its significance. – News of palaeontology and stratigraphy. Suppl. to journal Geologiya i Geofizika, 14, 51: 37–50. (in Russian with English abstract).

Snigirevskaya, N. S., Nadler, Y. S. 1994. Habit and relationships of Orestovia (Middle Devonian). – Palaeontographica B, 233(1–6): 11–18.

Snigirevskaya, N. S., Popov, L. E., Zdebska, D. 1992. New findings of the oldest higher plant remains in the Middle Ordovician of the South Kazakhstan. – Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 77(4): 1–9. (in Russian with English abstract).

Snigirevskaya, N. S., Shilkina, I. A., Furtes, V. V. 1990. Palaeobotanical basis for the Tertiary age of the rocks dated by the Pre-Cambrian or the Late Palaeozoic (the Ukraine). – Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 75(7): 915–919. (in Russian with English abstract).

Snigirevskaya, N. S., Snigirevsky, S. M. 1994a. Maf-Haya. Upper Devonian. – Proceedings of the Komarov Botanical Institute, 12: 61–62. (in Russian).

Snigirevskaya, N. S., Snigirevsky, S. M. 1994b. Razdol’noye. Upper Devonian. – Proceedings of the Komarov Botanical Institute, 12: 62–63. (in Russian).

Snigirevsky, S. M. 1992. New species of the genus Cladoxylon (Cladoxylaceae) from the Late Devonian of Donets Basin. – Voprosy paleontologii (Mezhvuzovskij sbornik), 10: 173–180. (in Russian).

Snigirevsky, S. M. 2016a. Reminiscences about the life and creative work of Natalia Sergeevna Snigirevskaya (09.08.1932–06.12.2015). – Biosfera, 8(1): 100–114. (in Russian with English abstract). https://doi.org/10.24855/biosfera.v8i1.146

Snigirevsky, S. M. 2016b. Creative way of Natalia Sergeevna Snigirevskaya (Son’s and colleague’s notes). – Lethaea Rossica, 12: 126–161. (in Russian).

Snigirevsky, S. M., Snigirevskaya, N. S. 2008. Some new data on Devonian in situ spores and comments to the nomenclature of sporae dispersae. – Palynology: stratigraphy and geoecology. Collection of the Scientific works of XII All-Russian Palynological confer. (29.09–4.10. 2008, St. Petersburg). St. Petersburg, Vol. I, p. 108–115. (in Russian with English abstract).

Zdebska, D., Snigirevskaya, N. S. 2001. Extinct fern Asterochlaenopsis kirgisica (Stenzel) Sahni (class Zygopteridopsida) from the Central Kazakhstan – in Wrozlaw Geological Museum in Poland. – Toporkovskie chteniya, 5: 246–249. (in Russian with English abstract).

Zhelezkova, E. V. 1985. The structure of megaspore wall of Pleuromeia rossica (Lycopodiophyta) from the Lower Triassic of Yaroslavl’ district. – Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 70(4): 472–475. (in Russian with English abstract).

Zodrow, E., Snigirevskaya, N. S., Palmer, C. A. 2002. Palaeoenvironments and carbonate process in plant-tissue preservation of calcite coal balls: Donets Basin, Russia and the Ukraine (Middle Carbonife­rous). – Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Mem., 19: 393–411.