Functional traits of fossil plants

JC McElwain, WJ Matthaeus, C Barbosa… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A minuscule fraction of the Earth's paleobiological diversity is preserved in the geological
record as fossils. What plant remnants have withstood taphonomic filtering, fragmentation …

Whole-Plant Reconstruction and Phylogenetic Relationships of Elatides zhoui sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia

G Shi, AB Leslie, PS Herendeen… - … Journal of Plant …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. Exceptionally well-preserved lignified fossils from the Early Cretaceous
of Mongolia include abundant conifer leafy shoots with attached pollen cones and seed …

Expanding the diversity of conifer xyloflora from Early Cretaceous Crato Fossil Lagerstätte, Brazil

DM da Conceição, WV Gobo, MEP Batista… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2024 - Elsevier
Remains of gymnosperms are the most abundant plant macro-fossils in the outcrops of a
fossil lagerstätte preserved in lacustrine limestones in the likely lower Aptian Crato …

Cunninghamia praelanceolata sp. nov. with associated epiphyllous fungi from the upper Miocene of eastern Zhejiang, SE China and their palaeoecological …

BX Du, DF Yan, BN Sun, XC Li, KQ Dao… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2012 - Elsevier
Cunninghamia praelanceolata sp. nov.(Cupressaceae) is described from the upper Miocene
Shengxian Formation of eastern Zhejiang, Southeast China. The fossil leaves are …

[HTML][HTML] Leaf anatomy of Ningxiaites specialis from the Lo**ian of Northwest China

JY Yang, HB Wei, XD Gou, SL Yang, Z Feng - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Leaves are important vegetative organs of plants. However, our knowledge of fossil conifer
leaves has been mostly obtained from compression or impression specimens. Compared …

Hubbardiastrobus cunninghamioides gen. et sp. nov., Evidence for a Lower Cretaceous Diversification of Cunninghamioid Cupressaceae

BA Atkinson, GW Rothwell… - International Journal of …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. The occurrence of six ovulate cones and six leafy branching systems,
two of which show attachment of the ovulate cone, reveals a new cunninghamioid fossil …

Hughmillerites vancouverensis sp. nov. and the Cretaceous diversification of Cupressaceae

BA Atkinson, GW Rothwell… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Two ovulate conifer cones, one of which is attached terminally to a
short leafy shoot, reveal the presence of a new species of Hughmillerites in the Early …

Reconstructing the Early Evolution of the Cupressaceae: A Whole-Plant Description of a New Austrohamia Species from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation (Early …

DL Contreras, IH Escapa… - … Journal of Plant …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. A new Early Jurassic species of Cupressaceae is reconstructed from
the Cañadón Asfalto Formation in Argentina, based on impressions of foliage and attached …

Calcite-Mineralized Fossil Wood from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

GE Mustoe, G Beard - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Calcite-mineralized wood occurs in marine sedimentary rocks on Vancouver Island, British
Columbia at sites that range in age from Early Cretaceous to Paleocene. These fossil woods …

The Eocene Thomas Ranch flora, Allenby Formation, Princeton, British Columbia, Canada

RM Dillhoff, TA Dillhoff, DR Greenwood, ML DeVore… - Botany, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
A flora from Thomas Ranch near Princeton, British Columbia, Canada, is assessed for
biodiversity and paleoclimate. This latest Early to early Middle Eocene flora occurs in the …