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The authors would like to thank Michael Krings (LMU) and Mike Reich (LMU) for reviewing this manuscript; the University of Jordan (Amman) for support; Nidal S. and Haatem S. Badandi (Irbid, Jordan), Frank Scholze and Jörg W. Schneider (Freiberg, Germany), and Sebastian Voigt (Thallichtenberg, Germany) for field-work assistance; Financial support was provided by the German Science Foundation (DFG Emmy Noether grant BO3131/1-1 “Latitudinal Patterns in Plant Evolution” to B.B.; DFG grants KE584/11-1 + 2 and KE584/20-1 to H.K.). This manuscript is a contribution to the Emmy Noether Research Programme “Latitudinal Patterns in Plant Evolution”.

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Blomenkemper, P., Kerp, H. & Bomfleur, B. A treasure trove of peculiar Permian plant fossils. PalZ 94, 409–412 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00489-4

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