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The Dawn Angiosperms

Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants

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Authors:
  1. Xin Wang

    1. Nanjing Institute of Geology &, Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, People's Republic

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  • Unique work about fossil plants Provides detailed description of pre-historic angiosperms Will trigger many new ideas for research in this field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 121)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 1-4

  3. Suggested Angiosperm Ancestors

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 5-16

  4. Angiosperms: Characters and Criteria

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 17-27

  5. Background for the Plant Fossils

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 29-36

  6. Flowers from the Early Cretaceous

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 37-89

  7. Flower-Related Fossils from the Jurassic

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 91-153

  8. Trace of Possible Angiosperms in the Jurassic

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 155-161

  9. Making of the Flower

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 163-187

  10. General Conclusions

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 189-194

  11. Appendix

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 195-212

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-236
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About this book

Angiosperms are the most diversi ed plant group in the world, being represented by ca 300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had their own history and gone through many evolutionary stages before they arrived at their current forms. The origin of Angiospermae ( owering plants) has been the subject of much dispute because this is a key event in the history of life, and has a far-reaching in uence on our understanding of relationships among seed plants as a whole as well as within the angiosperms. Until recently most of palae- otanists recognized angiosperms only from the Cretaceous and younger strata. This contradicts the results of molecular analyses. I have been working on Mesozoic fossil plants for the past two decades, during which time I have studied a number of fossil plants. Some of these fossil plants have been published as Jurassic angiosperms, and, unsurprisingly, many questions and doubts have been raised about them. These questions need to be addressed se- ously and journal papers do not provide suf cient space to compare and relate these early angiosperms. In this book these pioneer angiosperms are documented in detail, sometimes with new specimens not studied before. Also, I propose a de nition of angiosperms that could be adopted in palaeobotany. My aim is to improve clarity and objectivity of judgment about what constitutes a fossil angiosperm.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nanjing Institute of Geology &, Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, People's Republic

    Xin Wang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Dawn Angiosperms

  • Book Subtitle: Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants

  • Authors: Xin Wang

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01161-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-01160-3Published: 03 September 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-01161-0Published: 12 August 2010

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 238

  • Topics: Biogeosciences

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