A Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian) seed cone provides the earliest fossil record for Picea (Pinaceae)

• Main Authors: Klymiuk, Ashley A., Stockey, Ruth A.
• Other Authors: Botany and Plant Pathology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: Botanical Society of America
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Kamchatka Peninsula; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/4b29b668w

Premise of study: Sequence analyses for Pinaceae have suggested that extant genera diverged in the late Mesozoic. While the fossil record indicates that Pinaceae was highly diverse during the Cretaceous, there are few records of living genera. This description of an anatomically preserved seed cone...