The last Patagonian cycad, Austrozamia stockeyi gen. et sp. nov., early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Chubut, Argentina

The cycads pose classic problems in evolutionary biogeography due to their far-flung extant distributions and the sparse fossil records of living genera. A noteworthy example is Tribe Encephalarteae of Family Zamiaceae, today consisting of Encephalartos (Africa) and the Australian genera Lepidozamia...

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Main Authors: Wilf, Peter, Stevenson, Dennis Wm., Cuneo, N. Ruben
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/73729
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjb-2016-0038