ArticleBiology letters2023
No phylogenetic evidence for angiosperm mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary.
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- The stepwise rise of angiosperm-dominated terrestrial ecosystems.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- The meaning of mass extinctions and what the fossil record tells us about angiosperm survival at K-Pg: a reply to Hagen (2024).Biology letters · 2024Article
- A critique of Thompson and Ramírez-Barahona (2023) or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the fossil record.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Disparity of cycad leaves dispels the living fossil metaphor.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Angiosperm flowers reached their highest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history.The New phytologist · 2024Article
- The angiosperm radiation played a dual role in the diversification of insects and insect pollinators.Nature communications · 2024Article
- No phylogenetic evidence for angiosperm mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary.Biology letters · 2023Article
- The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: Heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2023Review
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Abstract
The Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction event (K-Pg) witnessed upwards of 75% of animal species going extinct, most notably among these are the non-avian dinosaurs. A major question in macroevolution is whether this extinction event influenced the rise of flowering plants (angiosperms). The fossil record suggests that the K-Pg event had a strong regional impact on angiosperms with up to 75% species extinctions, but only had a minor impact on the extinction rates of major lineages (families and orders). Phylogenetic evidence for angiosperm extinction dynamics through time remains unexplored. By analysing two angiosperm mega-phylogenies containing approximately 32 000-73 000 extant species, here we show relatively constant extinction rates throughout geological time and no evidence for a mass extinction at the K-Pg boundary. Despite high species-level extinction observed in the fossil record, our results support the macroevolutionary resilience of angiosperms to the K-Pg mass extinction event via survival of higher lineages.
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