Early Jurassic Flowers, Nanjinganthus, from China

[Oxytropidoceras]

Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years 

earlier than thought, eLife, December 18, 2018

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181218115205.htm

 

Qiang Fu, Jose Bienvenido Diez, Mike Pole, Manuel García 

Ávila, Zhong-Jian Liu, Hang Chu, Yemao Hou, Pengfei Yin, 

Guo-Qiang Zhang, Kaihe Du, Xin Wang. An unexpected 

noncarpellate epigynous flower from the Jurassic of China. 

eLife, 2018; 7 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.38827

https://elifesciences.org/articles/38827

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[DD1991]

Interesting paper. I remember reading long ago about fossil plants in Liaoning, China, dating to the Early Cretaceous, but Nanjinganthus could indicate a much earlier origin for flowering plants, more effectively synchronizing the timing of the divergence of gymnosperms and angiosperms in the Triassic.

[doushantuo]

e.g.

Nanjinganthus is an angiosperm, isn’t it?
Qiang Fu, José B. Diez, Mike Pole, Manuel García-Ávila, Xin Wang
 
China Geology 3 (2020) 359−361

 

Micro-CT results exhibit ovules enclosed in the ovaries of Nanjinganthus
Qiang Fu, Yemao Hou, Pengfei Yin, José Bienvenido Diez, Mike Pole, Manuel García-Ávila & Xin Wang

 

 Sci Rep 13, 426 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-27334-0

 

Supposed Jurassic angiosperms lack pentamery, an important angiosperm-specific feature

Dmitry D. Sokoloff , Margarita V. Remizowa , Elena S.  , Paula J. Rudall and Richard M. Bateman

 

New Phytologist (2020) 228: 420–426
 

nanji1-s2.0-S2096519220301713-main.pdf s41598-022-27334-0.pdf

New Phytologist - 2019 - Sokoloff - Supposetfd Jurassic angiosperms lack pentamery an important angiosperm‐specific feature.pdf

Edited March 12, 2023 by doushantuo