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Science 3 April 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5360, pp. 85 - 88
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5360.85
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Flower-Associated Brachycera Flies as Fossil Evidence for Jurassic Angiosperm Origins
Dong Ren
Pollinating insects played a decisive role in the origin and early
evolution of the angiosperms. Pollinating orthorrhaphous Brachycera
fossils (short-horned flies) collected from Late Jurassic rocks in
Liaoning Province of northeast China provide evidence for a
pre-Cretaceous origin of angiosperms. Functional morphology and
comparison with modern confamilial taxa show that the orthorrhaphous Brachycera were some of the most ancient pollinators. These data thus
imply that angiosperms originated during the Late Jurassic and were
represented by at least two floral types.
National Geological Museum of China, Xisi, Beijing 100034, China.
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