Nanjinganthus
| Nanjinganthus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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| Genus: | †Nanjinganthus
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| Species: | †N. dendrostyla
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| †Nanjinganthus dendrostyla Fu et al., 2018
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Nanjinganthus dendrostyla is a species of possibly angiosperm plant known from Early Jurassic sediments in China. It shares many features with modern angiosperms, including an ovary and ovules. It is unknown whether it is a proper angiosperm and related to the ancestor of all modern angiosperms or a stem-angiosperm with no descendants. If it is an angiosperm, it could extend the known temporal range of angiosperms by 50 million years.[1][2]
References
- ^ Fu, Qiang; Diez, Jose Bienvenido; Pole, Mike; Ávila, Manuel García; Liu, Zhong-Jian; Chu, Hang; Hou, Yemao; Yin, Pengfei; Zhang, Guo-Qiang (2018-12-18). "An unexpected noncarpellate epigynous flower from the Jurassic of China". eLife. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
- ^ "Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-12-24.