This review is based on a computerised database that I have built up over the past few years
and is intended to provide a catalogue mainly for those palaeopalynologists whose …

▪ Abstract The first flowering plant fossils occur as rare, undiverse pollen grains in the Early
Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian). Angiosperms diversified slowly during the Barremian …

Although evidence for land vegetation comes from the Silurian, and maybe even earlier, the
first record of fossil charcoal (fusain) is from the late Devonian. For this period there are only …

Insects are not dinosaurs–and they probably pose us more strange
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS puzzles and unexpected questions. A million extant species, that …

Angiosperm fruiting axes were discovered from the Upper Jurassic of China. Angiosperms
are defined by carpels enclosing ovules, a character demonstrated in this fossil. This feature …

The origins of angiosperms are still debated, despite many years of work by scientists from
differing disciplines. The progress made toward resolving the problem is reviewed in this …

This latest revision of my classification and geography of the Dicotyledons replaces my 1992
(Bot. Rev.[Lancaster] 58 (3): 225–348) review and is necessitated by the plethora of new …

The fossil record has played an important role in the history of evolutionary thought, has
aided the determination of key relationships through mosaics, and has allowed an …

In May 1995, fire burnt an area of heathland with stands of pine and birch trees in the
Frensham Common Country Park near Tilford in Surrey, southeast England. Extensive areas …

In 1879, Charles Darwin characterized the sudden and unexplained rise of angiosperms
during the Cretaceous as an “abominable mystery.” The diversification of this clade marked …