This is the first confirmed finding of Myrtaceidites eucalyptoides outside Australia.
Tag - fossil
Erin Zimmerman
When did the first flowers open?
Finding out when the earliest ancestor of the flowering plants evolved has been difficult. Estimates have been wildly different, depending on the method you use.
Alun Salt
Sphagnoid areolation pattern in leaves of Palaeozoic protosphagnalean mosses
Palaeozoic Protosphagnales constitute the largest group of extinct mosses of a still uncertain affinity. Their leaf areolation resembles that of modern Sphagna, which is strikingly different from any other mosses...
Alex Assiry
Exquisitely preserved tiny fossils are key for understanding moss evolution
Tiny 135-million-year-old moss fossils found in rocks from western Canada preserve exquisite anatomical details. These fossils open an unexpected window on moss evolution, as they allow for recognition of living moss...
Alexandru M.F. (Mihai) Tomescu
New insights into the biology of high-latitude Mesozoic trees
The presence in the specimens of both epicormic shoots and traumatic growth zones, combined with the observation of some disorientation of the wood structure in some parts of the trunks, suggest that these trees were...
botanyone
Whole-plant reconstruction of an early Devonian lycophyte
Plants of the Early Devonian epoch (419-323 million years ago) are crucial to reconstructing the initial radiation of tracheophytes, yet few are understood as whole organisms. Unearthing the habits of Sengelia radicans...
Hierarchical modularity hypothesis for Equisetum reproductive morphology
Sporangiophore development and Equisetum strobilus: how fossils and reproductive morphologies illuminate horsetail origins and homology
Timeless inner beauty…
This study of the fossilised stem of a royal fern in Lahar deposits from Korsaröd in Scania includes cellular details that are ‘exquisitely preserved’.
Nigel Chaffey