Late Miocene Pseudolarix amabilis bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180979

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	Late Miocene Pseudolarix amabilis bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China
	Bai, Yunjun; Li, Xiaoqiang
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2017-07-07
卷号	12 期号:7
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0180979
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Previously, the identification of fossil Pseudolarix at the species level has been based on the morphology of the bract-scale complex of the seed cone. The morphological consistence of fossils through most of the Cenozoic with extant P. amabilis has led them to be considered conspecific, suggesting that P. amabilis is an extraordinary example of morphological stasis. However, the lack of cuticular evidence, especially for the leaf-homologous bract, reduces the accuracy of fossil identification based on morphology, thus weakening the evidence for morphological stasis in P. amabilis. For the first time, we provide cuticular evidence of the bract-scale of fossil P. amabilis based on the bract-scale complex from the late Miocene Shengxian Formation, Zhejiang, East China, which improves the identification accuracy and reinforces the concept of morphological stasis in this species. Second, we preliminarily reveal the niche stability of P. amabilis, which corresponds to its morphological stasis. Finally, we infer that the late Miocene forest containing P. amabilis in Zhejiang was an evergreen sclerophyllous broad-leaved or mixed mesophytic forest, which combined with the evergreen broad-leaved forest suggested by previous megafossil studies, indicates the occurrence of vertical vegetation zonation.
WOS关键词	NICHE STABILITY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; RAIN-FOREST ; EOCENE ; EVOLUTION ; RESPONSES ; DYNAMICS ; GERMANY ; FLORAS ; SHIFTS
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000405464100124
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(41602188) ; National Basic Research Program of China(2015CB953803)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/8017]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bai, Yunjun,Li, Xiaoqiang. Late Miocene Pseudolarix amabilis bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China[J]. PLOS ONE,2017,12(7).
APA	Bai, Yunjun,&Li, Xiaoqiang.(2017).Late Miocene Pseudolarix amabilis bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China.PLOS ONE,12(7).
MLA	Bai, Yunjun,et al."Late Miocene Pseudolarix amabilis bract-scale complex from Zhejiang, East China".PLOS ONE 12.7(2017).