{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Jud NA"],"funding":["National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["431-442"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5838809"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["121(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background and aims</h4>Early Palaeocene (Danian) plant fossils from Patagonia provide information on the recovery from the end-Cretaceous extinction and Cenozoic floristic change in South America. Actinomorphic flowers with eight to ten perianth parts are described and evaluated in a phylogenetic framework. The goal of this study is to determine the identity of these fossil flowers and to discuss their evolutionary, palaeoecological and biogeographical significance.<h4>Methods</h4>More than 100 fossilized flowers were collected from three localities in the Danian Salamanca and Peñas Coloradas Formations in southern Chubut. They were prepared, photographed and compared with similar extant and fossil flowers using published literature and herbarium specimens. Phylogenetic analysis was p"],"journal":["Annals of botany"],"pubmed_title":["Fossil flowers from the early Palaeocene of Patagonia, Argentina, with affinity to Schizomerieae (Cunoniaceae)."],"pmcid":["PMC5838809"],"funding_grant_id":["DEB-1556136","DEB-0918932","DEB-0919071","DEB-0345750","DEB-1556666"],"pubmed_authors":["Gandolfo MA","Iglesias A","Wilf P","Jud NA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Fossil flowers from the early Palaeocene of Patagonia, Argentina, with affinity to Schizomerieae (Cunoniaceae).","description":"<h4>Background and aims</h4>Early Palaeocene (Danian) plant fossils from Patagonia provide information on the recovery from the end-Cretaceous extinction and Cenozoic floristic change in South America. Actinomorphic flowers with eight to ten perianth parts are described and evaluated in a phylogenetic framework. The goal of this study is to determine the identity of these fossil flowers and to discuss their evolutionary, palaeoecological and biogeographical significance.<h4>Methods</h4>More than 100 fossilized flowers were collected from three localities in the Danian Salamanca and Peñas Coloradas Formations in southern Chubut. They were prepared, photographed and compared with similar extant and fossil flowers using published literature and herbarium specimens. Phylogenetic analysis was p","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Mar","modification":"2026-07-04T03:16:05.947Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:22:38Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5838809","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29309506"],"doi":["10.1093/aob/mcx173"]}}