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Tiny pollen grains: first evidence of Saururaceae from the Late Cretaceous of western North America.
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backgroundThe Saururaceae, a very small family of Piperales comprising only six species in four genera, have a relatively scanty fossil record outside of Europe. The phylogenetic relationships of the four genera to each other are resolved, with the type genus
methodsDispersed fossil pollen grains from the Campanian (82-81 Ma) of North America are compared to dispersed pollen grains from the Eocene strata containing
resultsThe unambiguous fossil record of the Saururaceae is pushed back into the Campanian (82-81 Ma). Comparison with re-investigated pollen from the Eocene of North America, the Miocene of Europe, and modern species of the family shows that pollen morphology in Saururaceae is highly conservative, and remained largely unchanged for the last 80 million years. DISCUSSION: Campanian pollen of Saururaceae precludes young (Eocene or younger) estimates for the Saururaceae root and crown age, but is in-line with maximum age scenarios.
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