angiosperms older than Cretaceous?

[Jenny Xiang]

According to my knowledge, there has been a lot of debates regarding Pan
Guang's finding in China.  It was not even widely accepted by paleaobotanists
in China.  But, there is  a recent paper published in "Science in China" ,
1997, by Shuying Duan, which also documented a fossil record of angiosperms
from late Jurassic.  The fossil was also found from northeastern China
(Liaoning).  The title of the paper is (Translation from Chinese) "The most
ancient angiosperm - fossils with 3-carpellate reproductive organ".  Dr. Duan
is  affiliated in the Department of Paleaonbotany, Institute of Botany, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.   I have the paper (in Chinese)
containing pictures and illustration of the fossils.  I can scan this
pictures and send to people who want to see them.

Jenny Xiang

Zhang Dianxiang wrote:

> Dear taxacomer,
> Very recently I attended a Chinese Botanical Congress and at this
> gethering a speaker (a retired palaeontologist Mr. Pan Guang) reported his
> findings of fossil angiosperms from northern Chinese province Liaoning
> (the province where those birds and recently, a fossil flower
> unearthed),
> according to him, of the Jurassic. He said there are so many of them from
> a diverse extant families, although he only published a couple of them so
> far, in local Chinese journals and in an Indian one, Rheedia.
> I myself am always interested in palaeobotanical findings but have never
> been familiar with them. Do anybody know if there are any review or books
> that surveyed all the palaeobotanical evidences for angiospermous
> families?
> With my best wishes.
> Dianxiang
>
> Dianxiang Zhang
> Department of Ecology & Biodiversity
> The University of Hong Kong
> Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
> Tel: (852)29645769
> Fax: (852)25176082
> Another address: South China Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica,
> Guangzhou 510650, China.
> Tel: (86)20-87705626-277
> Fax: (86)20-87701031

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