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Angiosperm
Photo: Undescribed putative angiosperm from the Crato Formation, by G. Bechly 2008.

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›
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Photo credit: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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