Nanjinganthus: An Unexpected Flower from the Jurassic of China
Qiang Fu, José Bienvenido Diez, Mike Pole, Manuel García-Ávila, Zhong-Jian Liu, Hang Chu, Yemao Hou, Pengfei Yin, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Kaihe Du, Xin Wang
The paper describes a new Jurassic angiosperm flower, Nanjinganthus dendrostyla, based on 284 preserved specimens, confirming Jurassic angiosperms and providing new data for their origin study.
bioRxiv · Dec 27, 2017 · PreprintPaleontology