How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

M Coiro, JA Doyle, J Hilton - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of the origin of angiosperms is a hotly debated topic in plant evolution. Molecular
dating analyses that consistently retrieve pre‐Cretaceous ages for crown‐group …

Molecular and fossil evidence on the origin of angiosperms

JA Doyle - Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Molecular data on relationships within angiosperms confirm the view that their increasing
morphological diversity through the Cretaceous reflected their evolutionary radiation …

Parallel evolution of angiosperm colour signals: common evolutionary pressures linked to hymenopteran vision

AG Dyer, S Boyd-Gerny… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Flowering plants in Australia have been geographically isolated for more than 34 million
years. In the Northern Hemisphere, previous work has revealed a close fit between the …

Paleogene land mammal faunas of South America; a response to global climatic changes and indigenous floral diversity

MO Woodburne, FJ Goin, M Bond, AA Carlini… - Journal of mammalian …, 2014 - Springer
An appraisal of Paleogene floral and land mammal faunal dynamics in South America
suggests that both biotic elements responded at rate and extent generally comparable to …

The evolution of Patagonian climate and vegetation from the Mesozoic to the present

ARI Iglesias, AE Artabe, EM Morel - Biological Journal of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In this review, Patagonian phytogeographical patterns are analysed from a global and
evolutionary perspective that takes into account aspects from the geology, climatology and …

Splendid and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia

P Wilf, NR Cúneo, IH Escapa, D Pol… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

Early Cretaceous angiosperm pollen from a low-latitude succession (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil)

U Heimhofer, PA Hochuli - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2010 - Elsevier
The radiation of flowering plants during the Cretaceous represents a marked evolutionary
turnover from gymnosperm-to angiosperm-dominated ecosystems within a time span of …

[HTML][HTML] A basal lithostrotian titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a complete skull: implications for the evolution and paleobiology of Titanosauria

RDF Martínez, MC Lamanna, FE Novas, RC Ridgely… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We describe Sarmientosaurus musacchioi gen. et sp. nov., a titanosaurian sauropod
dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian—Turonian) Lower Member of the Bajo …

Tectonic-driven climate change and the diversification of angiosperms

AC Chaboureau, P Sepulchre… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

[图书][B] The dawn angiosperms

X Wang - 2010 - Springer
Angiosperms are the most diversified plant group in the world, being represented by ca
300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had …