Re: Cretaceous angiosperms

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Just a quick question: is the Koonwarra specimen (S.E. Australia,
115-118 MYA) still the earliest known example of a preserved angiosperm
flower? Is there any eariler evidence based on pollens?


Hickey LJ, Taylor DW (1992) Paleobiology of early angiosperms: evidence
from sedimentological associations in the Early Cretaceous Potomac Group
of eastern USA. The Paleontological Society Special Publications 6:128.

David Winship Taylor and Leo J. Hickey (eds) 1996. Flowering Plant
Origin, Evolution & Phylogeny. Chapman & Hall, New York

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