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the principal family of plants in the order Fabales; the most prominent subfamilies are the Papilionoideae and Mimosoideae, important for their role in fixing atmospheric nitrogen in concert with symbiotic bacteria such as the Rhizobiales; the earliest-known fossil specimens have been found in Paleocene strata, but the family’s roots go back to the radiation of angiosperms in the Early Cretaceous; global distribution, Paleocene to Recent.
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Carlton, R.L. (2018). F. In: A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73055-4_6
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