The pollen cones of Ginkgo from the early Cretaceous of China, and their bearing on the evolutionary significance

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-144

  Liu, Xiu Qun ^a,b   Li, Cheng Sen ^a   Wang, Yu Fei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Evolutionary trends; Ginkgo liaoningensis; Living fossil; Reduction hypothesis; Yixian Formation

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; NEW SPECIES; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN;

ALBERTA; ASIA; CANADA; CHINA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; LIAONING; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; YORKSHIRE;

GINKGO BILOBA;

EID: 33749078730     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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