Looking for photos of Welwitschia mirabilis fossils

[gkpaleo]

Squad, I am planning to give a short talk to our North Coast Fossil Club on Saturday 12/16/21 and am trying to find any photos or illustrations show fossil specimens of the unusual plant Welwitschia, which is said to be a living fossil that is known from 113 millions years ago (Lower Cretaceous).  There are many articles on the web discussing the modern plant with many good photos of it and its parts, but none seem to show any fossil specimens.  Anyone who has or knows where some can be found, please let me know (either here or via PM).  Thanks!

[DPS Ammonite]

Photos of Welwitschiaceae fossils from the Cretaceous of Brazil found here:

 

Dilcher DL, Bernardes-De-Oliveira ME, Pons D, Lott TA. Welwitschiaceae from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil. Am J Bot. 2005 Aug;92(8):1294-310. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.8.1294. PMID: 21646150.

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2021 by DPS Ammonite

[gkpaleo]

Thanks very much.  Do you have a link to the article or images on line? All I can find is an abstract to the paper. 

Thanks!

Edited December 17, 2021 by gkpaleo
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[Coco]

Hi,

 

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Coco

[Fossildude19]

3 hours ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

@gkpaleoyou should know that you never put a clickable email address on a forum ! This is the best way to be attacked by spammers ! You have to write name @ yahoo.com or name-at-yahoo.com, so your email is no longer clickable and robots can’t retrieve it.

 

Coco

 

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[oilshale]

Better write a PM.

PM sent (with pdf file).

Edited December 17, 2021 by oilshale

[DPS Ammonite]

7 hours ago, gkpaleo said:

Thanks very much.  Do you have a link to the article or images on line? All I can find is an abstract to the paper. 

Thanks!

 

 

Double click on the first image, the first page of the paper; it is a link. It may not have been obvious that it was a link. Here is the link too: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary-Bernardes-De-Oliveira/publication/51196330_Welwitschiaceae_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_northeastern_Brazil/links/599f2ec34585151e3c6acd0d/Welwitschiaceae-from-the-Lower-Cretaceous-of-northeastern-Brazil.pdf?origin=publication_detail