Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms
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Crisp, Michael; Cook, Lynette Gai
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We test the widely held notion that living gymnosperms are 'ancient' and 'living fossils' by comparing them with their sister group, the angiosperms. This perception derives partly from the lack of gross morphological differences between some Mesozoic gymnosperm fossils and their living relatives (e.g. Ginkgo, cycads and dawn redwood), suggesting that the rate of evolution of gymnosperms has been slow. We estimated the ages and diversification rates of gymnosperm lineages using Bayesian relaxed...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2011 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/63198 |
Source: | New Phytologist |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03862.x |
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