Cretaceous chloranthoids: early prominence, extinct diversity and missing links

EM Friis, PR Crane, KR Pedersen, F Marone - Annals of botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The Chloranthaceae comprise four extant genera (Hedyosmum,
Ascarina, Chloranthus and Sarcandra), all with simple flowers. Molecular phylogenetics …

[PDF][PDF] Fossil mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal–a window into the Mesozoic history of Bryophytes

B Bomfleur, L HEDENÄS, EM FRIIS, PR Crane… - Fossil …, 2023 - researchgate.net
A diverse assemblage of mosses from the Early Cretaceous Catefica mesofossil flora,
Portugal, is described based on fragments of charcoalified and lignitized gametophytes and …

Multipartite Flowers with a Distinct Floral Cup and Multiovulate Carpels: An Early Cretaceous Angiosperm of Probable Lauralean Relationship

EM Friis, PR Crane… - International Journal of …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. Typically, the small coalified mesofossil flowers known from the Early
Cretaceous have character combinations that are unknown among extant angiosperms …

The Cretaceous Diversification of Angiosperms: Perspectives from Mesofossils

EM Friis, PR Crane, KR Pedersen - Geological Society, London …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The plant fossil record during the Cretaceous documents a major transition in the dominant
group of terrestrial autotrophs, as plant communities from the earlier Mesozoic were …

Trilobated Lauraceous leaves from the Upper Cretaceous Olmos Formation, Coahuila, Northern Mexico

MA Rubalcava-Knoth, SRS Cevallos-Ferriz - Cretaceous Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Olmos Formation in Coahuila, Mexico has crucial information about the
Cretaceous floras in northern Mexico. Its plant diversity is high and represents one of the …