Claim · model-written summary
Overlapping pollen traits suggest boreotropical expansion of basal angiosperms.
- Taxon
- basal angiospermse0
- Outcome
- boreotropical expansione0
- Qualifier
- under wet tropical climates of Cretaceous–Paleogenee0
- Setting
- Africa and northern mid‐latitudese0
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Verbatim
e0“Overlapping pollen traits between Myristicaceae and earliest angiosperm fossils across Africa and northern mid‐latitudes further suggest a boreotropical expansion of basal angiosperms under wet tropical climates of Cretaceous–Paleogene”
Title
Shalini Parmar; Mahi Bansal; Shivaprakash K. Nagaraju; et al. Journal of Biogeography 2025. doi:10.1111/jbi.70030
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The Myristicaceae crown lineage originated about 130 Ma in western Gondwana.
- Observation Myristicaceae diversified into three named clades.
- Observation Diversification accelerated around 72 Ma.
- Observation Diversification continued after the K‐Pg extinction.
- Observation The megaphylogeny supports a pre‐Cretaceous origin of basal angiosperms.