Structure and relationships of the Jurassic conifer seed cone Hughmillerites juddii gen. et comb. nov.: implications for the origin and evolution of Cupressaceae

GW Rothwell, RA Stockey, G Mapes, J Hilton - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2011 - Elsevier
Anatomically preserved Jurassic conifer seed cones originally described as Conites juddi
Seward and Bancroft are reinvestigated and assigned to Hughmillerites juddii gen. et comb …

Middle Jurassic evidence for the origin of Cupressaceae: a paleobotanical context for the roles of regulatory genetics and development in the evolution of conifer seed …

ART Spencer, G Mapes, RM Bateman… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Triassic and Jurassic fossils record structural changes in conifer seed
cones through time, provide the earliest evidence for crown‐group conifer clades, and …

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 …

Stockeystrobus gen. nov. (Cupressaceae), and the evolutionary diversification of sequoioid conifer seed cones

GW Rothwell, T Ohana - Botany, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
An anatomically preserved seed cone from Late Cretaceous (Santonian–Coniacian)
sediments of the Yezo Group on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido documents additional …

Implications of fossil conifers for the phylogenetic relationships of living families

CN Miller - The Botanical Review, 1999 - Springer
Fossils have played a central role in our understanding of the evolution of conifers.
Interpretation of the seed cone as a compound strobilus and the homologies of the …

Cunninghamia taylorii sp. nov., a Structurally Preserved Cupressaceous Conifer from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Western …

R Serbet, B Bomfleur… - International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
The fossiliferous ironstone deposits of the Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation
in the Drumheller badlands, Alberta, Canada, contain a diverse, anatomically preserved …

Hanskerpia gen. nov. and phylogenetic relationships among the most ancient conifers (Voltziales)

GW Rothwell, G Mapes, GR Hernandez-Castillo - Taxon, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A new fossilized walchian (Voltziales) conifer plant from the Late Pennsylvanian Hamilton
Quarry of Kansas, USA combines morphological characters of the morphogenus Walchia …

Revision of the genus Cunninghamites (fossil conifers), with special reference to nomenclature, taxonomy and geological age

HF Bosma, L Kunzmann, J Kvaček… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2012 - Elsevier
The genus Cunninghamites was originally described for fossil sterile foliage. The inclusion
of fertile material, and the debate about the nomenclature and taxonomy of Cunninghamites …

The seed cone Eathiestrobus gen. nov.: Fossil evidence for a Jurassic origin of Pinaceae

GW Rothwell, G Mapes, RA Stockey… - American Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Pinaceae and nonpinoid species are sister groups within the conifer
clade as inferred from molecular systematic comparisons of living species and therefore …

A new fossil conifer from the Triassic of North America: implications for models of ovulate cone scale evolution

BJ Axsmith, TN Taylor… - International journal of …, 1998 - journals.uchicago.edu
Vegetative shoots, ovulate cones, and putative seeds of Conewagia longiloba gen. et sp.
nov., a fossil conifer from the Upper Triassic New Oxford Formation of York County …