First evidence for Wollemi Pine-type pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in South America

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Macphail, M., Carpenter, R., Iglesias, A., Wilf, P.
• Other Authors: Newsom, L.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Pollen; Geography; Fossils; South America; Argentina; Tracheophyta; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Patagonia; New Zealand; Ari; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/80041; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069281

We report the first fossil pollen from South America of the lineage that includes the recently discovered, extremely rare Australian Wollemi Pine, Wollemia nobilis (Araucariaceae). The grains are from the late Paleocene to early middle Eocene Ligorio Márquez Formation of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argen...