The Dawn Angiosperms Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants /

• Main Author: Wang, Xin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 121
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.

This book, besides providing necessary background information and discussions, focuses on the earliest angiosperms: namely those more than 125 million years old. Currently 125 million year old angiosperms, are the oldest to be found - especially in the eyes of European scholars. It proceeds by intro...

Table of Contents:

• Suggested Angiosperm Ancestors
• Angiosperms: Characters and Criteria
• Background for the Plant Fossils
• Flowers from the Early Cretaceous
• Flower-Related Fossils from the Jurassic
• Trace of Possible Angiosperms in the Jurassic
• Making of the Flower
• General Conclusions.