Early flowers and angiosperm evolution /

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Author / Creator:Friis, Else Marie, author.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 585 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Subject:Angiosperms, Fossil.
Angiosperms -- Evolution.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Angiosperms -- Evolution.
Angiosperms, Fossil.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11830390
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Other authors / contributors:Crane, Peter R., author.
Pedersen, Kaj Raunsgaard, author.
ISBN:9781139116084
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-572) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:A study of the evolution of flowering plants, from their earliest phases in obscurity to their dominance in modern vegetation.
"The recent discovery of diverse fossil flowers and floral organs in Cretaceous strata has revealed astonishing details about the structural and systematic diversity of early angiosperms. Exploring the rich fossil record that has accumulated over the last three decades, this unique study follows the evolutionary history of flowering plants from their earliest phases in obscurity to their dominance in modern vegetation. The book provides comprehensive biological and geological background information, before moving on to summarise the fossil record in detail. Including previously unpublished results based on research into Early and Late Cretaceous fossil floras from Europe and North America, the authors draw together direct palaeontological evidence of the pattern of angiosperm evolution through time. Synthesising palaeobotanical data with information from living plants, this book explores the latest research in the field and highlights connections with phylogenetic systematics as well as the structure and the biology of extant angiosperms"--
Other form:Print version: Friis, Else Marie. Early flowers and angiosperm evolution. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521592833
Standard no.:10.1017/CBO9780511980206