Oldest known eucalyptus macrofossils are from south america

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gandolfo, María A ^a   Hermsen, Elizabeth J ^a   Zamaloa, María C ^b   Nixon, Kevin C ^a   González, Cynthia C ^c   Wilf, Peter ^d   Cúneo, N Rubén ^c   Johnson, Kirk R ^e  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BUD; CLADISTICS; EOCENE; EUCALYPTUS; EVOLUTION; EXTANT SPECIES; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL PLANT; FRUIT (STRUCTURE); GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INFLORESCENCE; LEAF VEIN; MACROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT TAXONOMY; RAIN FOREST; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; FOSSIL;

EUCALYPTUS; SYMPHYOMYRTUS;

EUCALYPTUS; FOSSILS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79959628418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021084     Document Type: Article

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