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Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene Neotropical rainforest in Colombia

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dc.contributor.author Herrera, Fabiany A.
dc.contributor.author Jaramillo, Carlos A.
dc.contributor.author Dilcher, David L.
dc.contributor.author Wing, Scott L.
dc.contributor.author Gomez-N., Carolina
dc.date.accessioned 2010-03-10T15:40:12Z
dc.date.available 2010-03-10T15:40:12Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.identifier 0002-9122
dc.identifier.citation Herrera, Fabiany A., Jaramillo, Carlos A., Dilcher, David L., Wing, Scott L., and Gomez-N., Carolina. 2008. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8804">Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene Neotropical rainforest in Colombia</a>." <em>American Journal of Botany</em>, 95, (12) 1569–1583. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800172">https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800172</a>.
dc.identifier.issn 0002-9122
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10088/8804
dc.description.abstract Both the fossil record and molecular data support a long evolutionary history for the Araceae. Although the family is diverse in tropical America today, most araceous fossils, however, have been recorded from middle and high latitudes. Here, we report fossil leaves of Araceae from the middle-late Paleocene of northern Colombia, and review fossil araceous pollen grains from the same interval. Two of the fossil leaf species are placed in the new fossil morphogenus Petrocardium Herrera, Jaramillo, Dilcher, Wing et Gomez-N gen. nov.; these fossils are very similar in leaf morphology to extant Anthurium; however, their relationship to the genus is still unresolved. A third fossil leaf type from Cerrejon is recognized as a species of the extant genus Montrichardia, the first fossil record for this genus. These fossils inhabited a coastal rainforest [~]60-58 million years ago with broadly similar habitat preferences to modern Araceae.
dc.format.extent 1569–1583
dc.relation.ispartof American Journal of Botany 95 (12)
dc.title Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene Neotropical rainforest in Colombia
dc.type article
sro.identifier.refworksID 40108
sro.identifier.itemID 77728
sro.description.unit NH-EOL
sro.description.unit Center for Tropical Palaeoecology and Archaeology
sro.description.unit STRI
sro.description.unit NMNH
sro.description.unit NH-Paleobiology
sro.identifier.doi 10.3732/ajb.0800172
sro.identifier.url https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8804


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