A eudicot from the Early Cretaceous of China

Ge Sun (), David L. Dilcher (), Hongshan Wang and Zhiduan Chen
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Ge Sun: Paleontological Institute of Shenyang Normal University
David L. Dilcher: Paleontological Institute of Shenyang Normal University
Hongshan Wang: Paleontological Institute of Shenyang Normal University
Zhiduan Chen: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

Nature, 2011, vol. 471, issue 7340, 625-628

Abstract: An early flowering The early history of flowering plants (angiosperms) is contentious, but a steady stream of fossil discoveries from the Early Cretaceous of China is beginning to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge. The latest of these, found in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, is a fossil that dates to between 124.4 million and 122.9 million years old. It is particularly informative because this angiosperm is a eudicot — the relatively derived group that dominates the flowering plants in the world today — and is also possibly a member of the Ranunculaceae. The fossil confirms the presence of the eudicots at this time and documents an early burst of angiosperm evolution.

Date: 2011
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