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
	2017-07-07
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
卷号	12 期号:7
文章类型	Article
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标题词	Science & Technology
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0180979
关键词[WOS]	NICHE STABILITY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; RAIN-FOREST ; EOCENE ; EVOLUTION ; RESPONSES ; DYNAMICS ; GERMANY ; FLORAS ; SHIFTS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China(41602188) ; National Basic Research Program of China(2015CB953803)
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000405464100124
引用统计	被引频次：2[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8017
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
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).