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An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China
A fossil eudicot, Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov., is reported from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of the Gansu Province, Northwest China, based on numerous well-preserved axes with attached leaves and infructescences. The leaves are alternate, short petiolate and linear-lance...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8692937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab084 |
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author | Du, Baoxia Zhang, Mingzhen Sun, Bainian Li, Aijing Zhang, Jing Yan, Defei Xie, Sanping Wu, Jingyu |
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description | A fossil eudicot, Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov., is reported from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of the Gansu Province, Northwest China, based on numerous well-preserved axes with attached leaves and infructescences. The leaves are alternate, short petiolate and linear-lanceolate with low rank pinnate to reticulate venation. The infructescences are loose panicles bearing fruits in different stages of maturity, each containing four partly free carpels borne in a whorled arrangement. Each carpel has three to five seeds borne along its ventral margin. The nature of the leaves and axes indicates a terrestrial, herbaceous habit. In general organization, Gansufructus is closely similar to the fruit-bearing axes of Sinocarpus decussatus from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, as well as other more or less contemporaneous angiosperms from the Far East, which together provide evidence of diverse eudicot angiosperms of low stature colonizing areas close to environments of deposition. |
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spelling | pubmed-86929372022-01-04 An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China Du, Baoxia Zhang, Mingzhen Sun, Bainian Li, Aijing Zhang, Jing Yan, Defei Xie, Sanping Wu, Jingyu Natl Sci Rev Earth Sciences A fossil eudicot, Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov., is reported from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of the Gansu Province, Northwest China, based on numerous well-preserved axes with attached leaves and infructescences. The leaves are alternate, short petiolate and linear-lanceolate with low rank pinnate to reticulate venation. The infructescences are loose panicles bearing fruits in different stages of maturity, each containing four partly free carpels borne in a whorled arrangement. Each carpel has three to five seeds borne along its ventral margin. The nature of the leaves and axes indicates a terrestrial, herbaceous habit. In general organization, Gansufructus is closely similar to the fruit-bearing axes of Sinocarpus decussatus from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, as well as other more or less contemporaneous angiosperms from the Far East, which together provide evidence of diverse eudicot angiosperms of low stature colonizing areas close to environments of deposition. Oxford University Press 2021-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8692937/ /pubmed/34987839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab084 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Earth Sciences Du, Baoxia Zhang, Mingzhen Sun, Bainian Li, Aijing Zhang, Jing Yan, Defei Xie, Sanping Wu, Jingyu An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China |
title | An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China |
title_full | An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China |
title_fullStr | An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China |
title_full_unstemmed | An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China |
title_short | An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China |
title_sort | exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the early cretaceous (late aptian–early albian) of northwest china |
topic | Earth Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8692937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab084 |
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