Tiny pollen grains: first evidence of Saururaceae from the Late Cretaceous of western North America
Background The 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 Saururus occurring in both eastern Nort...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-06-01
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