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Article: Earliest fossil record of the genus Tetradium (Rutaceae) in Asia: implications for its evolution and palaeoecology

Papers in Palaeontology - Volume 7 Issue 1 - Cover
Publication: Papers in Palaeontology
Volume: 7
Part: 4
Publication Date: November 2021
Page(s): 2065 2074
Author(s): Lu-Liang Huang, Jian-Hua Jin, Cheng Quan, and Alexei A. Oskolski
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1394
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HUANG, L.L., JIN, J.H., QUAN, C., OSKOLSKI, A.A. 2021. . Papers in Palaeontology, 7, 4, 2065-2074. DOI: /doi/10.1002/spp2.1394

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  • Lu-Liang Huang - State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510275 China
  • Lu-Liang Huang - State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing 210008 China
  • Jian-Hua Jin - State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510275 China
  • Cheng Quan - School of Earth Science and Resources Chang’an University Xi’an 710054 China
  • Alexei A. Oskolski - Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology University of Johannesburg Johannesburg 2006 South Africa
  • Alexei A. Oskolski - Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences St Petersburg 197376 Russia

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    Abstract

    A new species, Tetradium nanningense sp. nov. (Rutaceae), is described on the basis of well-preserved mummified wood from the upper Oligocene Yongning Formation of Nanning Basin, Guangxi Province, South China. This species represents the most ancient fossil evidence of the genus Tetradium in Asia, the region of its modern distribution. Its occurrence in the late Oligocene is consistent with the diversification age of the modern Asian species within this genus as estimated by molecular dating: Tnanningense could be closely related to an ancestor of extant Tetradium species. The fossil record of Tetradium suggests that this genus migrated from North America to eastern Asia in the Oligocene. The presence of (semi-)ring-porous wood and helical thickenings on vessel walls in T. nanningense provides new evidence for the independent gains of these traits in the course of evolution among different plant groups from eastern and south-eastern Asia in the Oligocene. These wood features might have arisen in response to the increase in climate seasonality following the abrupt climate cooling across the Eocene–Oligocene boundary.

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