Flowering after disaster: Early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from Patagonia.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Nathan A Jud, Maria A Gandolfo, Ari Iglesias, Peter Wilf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Argentina; Chubut; Patagonia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176164; https://doaj.org/article/a0981cff4ff64c2db1aec4adc28d0e67

Southern-Hemisphere terrestrial communities from the early Paleocene are poorly known, but recent work on Danian plant fossils from the Salamanca Formation in Chubut Province, Argentina are providing critical data on earliest Paleocene floras. The fossils described here come from a site in the Salam...