A new fossil assemblage shows that large angiosperm trees grew in North America by the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) Journal Articles

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abstract

Fossils from Utah show large flowering trees evolved at least 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

authors

Jud, Nathan A
D’Emic, Michael D
Williams, Scott A
Mathews, Josh C
Tremaine, Katie M
Bhattacharya, Janok

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published

publication date

September 7, 2018

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Alligators and Crocodiles (MeSH)
Animals (MeSH)
Biodiversity (MeSH)
Dinosaurs (MeSH)
Ecosystem (MeSH)
Fossils (MeSH)
Magnoliopsida (MeSH)
Paleontology (MeSH)
Phylogeny (MeSH)
Plant Leaves (MeSH)
Trees (MeSH)
Turtles (MeSH)
Wood (MeSH)

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Science Advances Journal