Current studentsExisting staffContact us
 

First evidence for Wollemi Pine-type pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in South America

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMacphail, M.
dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, R.
dc.contributor.authorIglesias, A.
dc.contributor.authorWilf, P.
dc.contributor.editorNewsom, L.A.
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractWe report the first fossil pollen from South America of the lineage that includes the recently discovered, extremely rare Australian Wollemi Pine, Wollemia nobilis (Araucariaceae). The grains are from the late Paleocene to early middle Eocene Ligorio Márquez Formation of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina, and are assigned to Dilwynites, the fossil pollen type that closely resembles the pollen of modern Wollemia and some species of its Australasian sister genus, Agathis. Dilwynites was formerly known only from Australia, New Zealand, and East Antarctica. The Patagonian Dilwynites occurs with several taxa of Podocarpaceae and a diverse range of cryptogams and angiosperms, but not Nothofagus. The fossils greatly extend the known geographic range of Dilwynites and provide important new evidence for the Antarctic region as an early Paleogene portal for biotic interchange between Australasia and South America.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityMike Macphail, Raymond J. Carpenter, Ari Iglesias, Peter Wilf
dc.identifier.citationPLoS One, 2013; 8(7):1-8
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0069281
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/80041
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rights© 2013 Macphail et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069281
dc.subjectPollen
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectFossils
dc.subjectSouth America
dc.subjectArgentina
dc.subjectTracheophyta
dc.titleFirst evidence for Wollemi Pine-type pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in South America
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
hdl_80041.pdf
Size:
1.79 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published version
Download

Collections

Earth and Environmental Sciences publications