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Fossil Record and Dates of Diversification

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Flowering Plants. Monocots

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 13))

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The fossil record of the grasses has been comprehensively reviewed by Thomasson (1987), Jacobs et al. (1999), and most recently by Strömberg (2011), and what follows is based heavily on those papers. Available fossils consist of pollen, macrofossils (leaf fragments, spikelets, fruits), and phytoliths (silica bodies).

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Kellogg, E.A. (2015). Fossil Record and Dates of Diversification. In: Flowering Plants. Monocots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15332-2_11

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