Habit and ecology of the Petriellales, an unusual group of seed plants from the triassic of Gondwana

• Published in: International Journal of Plant Sciences
• Main Authors: Bomfleur, Benjamin, Decombeix, Anne Laure, Schwendemann, Andrew, Escapa, Ignacio Hernan, Taylor, Edith L., Taylor, Thomas N., McLoughlin, Stephen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University Of Chicago Press
• Subjects: PETRIELLALES; GYMNOSPERMS; TRIASSIC; PALEOECOLOGY; POLAR FORESTS; ANTARCTICA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Edith; Laure; Suecia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/18856

Premise of research. Well-preserved Triassic plant fossils from Antarctica yield insights into the physiology of plant growth under the seasonal light regimes of warm polar forests, a type of ecosystem without any modern analogue. Among the many well-known Triassic plants from Antarctica is the enig...