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2021
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Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants
Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the most diverse of all land plants, becoming abundant in the Cretaceous and achieving dominance in the Cenozoic. However, the exact timing of their origin remains a controversial topic, with molecular clocks generally placing their origin much further back in time than the oldest unequivocal fossils....Silvestro, Daniele ; Bacon, Christine D. ; Ding, Wenna ; Zhang, Qiuyue ; Donoghue, Philip C. J. …
Evolution, Computational biology and bioinformatics , and Plant sciences