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Creator:: Rothwell, Gar W., Mapes, Gene, Stockey, Ruth A., and Hilton, Jason
Abstract:: Premise of research. A third genus of anatomically preserved conifer seed cones has been recognized from a Late Jurassic deposit in northeastern Scotland. This cone is described as Bancroftiastrobus digitata Rothwell, Mapes, Stockey et Hilton. Methodology. The cone was sectioned with the classic coal ball peel technique and studied and...
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Full Text:: inverted-U-shaped scale trace. More distally, the scale trace flattens and divides into a single row of C

Creator:: Rothwell, Gar W., Mapes, Gene, Stockey, Ruth A., and Hilton, Jason
Abstract:: Premise of the study: Pinaceae and nonpinoid species are sister groups within the conifer clade as inferred from molecular systematic comparisons of living species and therefore should have comparable geological ages. However, the fossil record for the nonpinoid lineage of extant conifer families is Triassic, nearly 100 million years older...
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Full Text:: (NSF Grant No. EF-0629819 to G.W.R., G.M., and R.A.S.), National Science and Engineering Research

Creator:: Ryberg, Patricia E., Rothwell, Gar W., Stockey, Ruth A., Hilton, Jason, Mapes, Gene, and Riding, James B.
Abstract:: This study describes a specimen that extends the oldest fossil evidence of Pinus L. to the Early Cretaceous Wealden Formation of Yorkshire, UK (131-129 million years ago), and prompts a critical reevaluation of criteria that are employed to identify crown group genera of Pinaceae from anatomically preserved seed cones. The...
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Full Text:: of preparation there were three segments of the cone that were labeled A–C from the apex to the base

Creator:: Stockey, Ruth A. and Rothwell, Gar W.
Abstract:: A cylindrical permineralized conifer seed cone has been identified from the Officer Member of the Trowbridge Formation, near Izee, in east-central Oregon. The cone is preserved in a Middle Jurassic (Callovian) marine calcium carbonate concretion, associated with araucarian seed cones, conifer twigs and wood, cycad seeds, fern rachides, and lycopodialean...
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Full Text:: exposure along the Paulina-Suplee Highway, ;5 mi east of Izee (SE 1/4 sec. 13; T. 17 S, R. 28 E, Grant

Creator:: Klymiuk, Ashley A. and Stockey, Ruth A.
Abstract:: Premise of study: Sequence analyses for Pinaceae have suggested that extant genera diverged in the late Mesozoic. While the fossil record indicates that Pinaceae was highly diverse during the Cretaceous, there are few records of living genera. This description of an anatomically preserved seed cone extends the fossil record for...
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Full Text:: 5 December 2011; revision accepted 12 April 2012. The authors wish to acknowledge C. N. Miller

Creator:: Bronson, Allison W., Klymiuk, Ashley A., Stockey, Ruth A., and Tomescu, Alexandru M. F.
Abstract:: A perithecial ascomycete, Spataporthe taylori gen. et sp. nov., represented by >70 sporocarps is preserved by cellular permineralization in marine carbonate concretions dated at the Valanginian-Hauterivian boundary (Early Cretaceous) from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The spheroid perithecia with lumina 330–470 µm wide and 220–320 µm high are densely distributed...
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Full Text:: perithecium layer lining base of perithecium (C), and asci, detached (B, C) and attached to hymenium at bottom

Creator:: Rothwell, Gar W. and Stockey, Ruth A.
Abstract:: A fossil seed cone with characters that have been hypothesized as transitional to the origin of crown group gnetophytes has been discovered in Lower Cretaceous deposits on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. This cone, described as Protoephedrites eamesii gen. et sp. nov., provides the first anatomically preserved fossil evidence for...
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Full Text:: shoots at two nodes. D bot no. 100 3 16. Scale bar ¼ 1 mm. C, Oblique section of cone showing bracts and

Creator:: Matsunaga, Kelly K. S., Stockey, Ruth A., and Tomescu, Alexandru M. F.
Abstract:: • Premise of the study: Colonists of even the most inhospitable environments, lichens are present in all terrestrial ecosystems. Because of their ecological versatility and ubiquity, they have been considered excellent candidates for early colonizers of terrestrial environments. Despite such predictions, good preservation potential, and the extant diversity of lichenized...
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Full Text:: supported in part by NSERC of Canada grant A-6908 to R.A.S. 4 Author for correspondence (e-mail: mihai

Creator:: Smith, Selena Y., Little, Stefan A., Cooper, Ranessa L., Burnham, Robyn J., and Stockey, Ruth A.
Abstract:: Premise of research. The lianoid habit is found in 125 extant plant families and is most diverse and abundant in structurally complex forests, such as tropical forests. A stem with lianoid anatomy is described from Cretaceous sediments of Hornby Island, British Columbia. Methodology. The stem segment, 2.5 cm in diameter...
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Full Text:: Mississippian epoch ∼335 million years ago (Burn- ham 2009). The climbing habit has evolved in ferns, extinct

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