Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: Innovation and evolution in plant reproduction

By E. M. Friis, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, P. Crane. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology

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High-precision 40Ar/ 39Ar age constraints on the basal Lanqi Formation and its implications for the origin of angiosperm plants (2009, positive): “Recently, most paleobotanists accept an Early Cretaceous origin for angiosperms because fossil pollen provides the oldest evidence of angiosperms at roughly 136 Ma, about 10 Ma ealier than the oldest unknown flower fossil (Friis et al., 2005; Friis et al., 2006; Rydin et al., 2006; Frohlich and Ch”
Flower Evolution: The Origin and Subsequent Diversification of the Angiosperm Flower (2009, background): “Although evidence of the first flowering plant appears as pollen in the fossil record around 125–130 Mya (early Cretaceous; Friis et al. 2006), the first evidence of the canonical eudicot flower with whorled arrangements of floral parts and a distinct corolla is not found until the middle…”
Anchored hybrid enrichment provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae) (2018, background): “The earliest known unambiguous fossil angiosperms (e.g. Friis et al., 2006) are also from that epoch.”
Integrating Early Cretaceous fossils into the phylogeny of living angiosperms: Magnoliidae and eudicots (2010, background): “Prominent Early Cretaceous taxa that we have not yet treated include fossils related to Chloranthaceae, such as Couperites and flowers with Asteropollis pollen (Pedersen et al., 1991; Friis et al., 1994b), which were included in a morphological analysis with much more limited outgroup taxon sampling”
Integrating Molecular Phylogenetic and Paleobotanical Evidence on Origin of the Flower (2008, background): “It can be expected that such results will be improved by integration of the increasing numbers of Early Cretaceous floral fossils, many described by Friis et al. (2006).”