A minute mid-Cretaceous flower from Siberia and implications for the problem of basal angiosperms

Geodiversitas

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-15

  Krassilov, Valentin A ^a,c   Golovneva, Lena B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b KOMAROV BOTANICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Basal angiosperms; Cenomanian; Cretaceous; Flower; New genus; New species; Plant morphology; Pollination ecology; Ranunculids; Siberia

Indexed keywords

AMBORELLACEAE; COROLLA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MENISPERMACEAE;

EID: 2942657189     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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