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Flower-Related Fossils from the Jurassic

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The Jurassic is an important period for the origin of angiosperms. Several reproductive organs have been excavated from the Jurassic strata in western Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, China. Schmeissneria, Xingxueanthus, Solaranthus, Euanthus, Juraherba and Yuhania are three female or bisexual organs of plants found in the Middle Jurassic in China and the Early Jurassic in Germany. All of them demonstrate the existence of enclosed ovule in the organ, satisfying the criterion for angiosperms. Among them, Schmeissneria is seen in both the Middle Jurassic in China and Early Jurassic in Europe, and thus sheds more light on the origin and early evolution of angiosperms.

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Wang, X. (2018). Flower-Related Fossils from the Jurassic. In: The Dawn Angiosperms. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58325-9_6

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