Palaeobotanical redux: revisiting the age of the angiosperms

2017/03/03 by Patrick S. Herendeen, Else Marie Friis, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen +1 · 200 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Cretaceous #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Extant taxon #Gymnosperm #Macrofossil #Paleobotany #Paleontology #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions #Plant and animal studies #Plant evolution #Pollen

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nplants.2017.15

published in Nature Plants 3(3), 17015 (Nature Portfolio)

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• Evidence for the Earliest Stage of Angiosperm Pollen Evolution: A Paleoequatorial Section from Israel
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