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

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Jud, Nathan A., Gandolfo, Maria A., Iglesias, Ari, Wilf, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Argentina; Chubut; Patagonia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425202/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28489895; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176164

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...