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The first fossil record of the genus Nageia Gaertner from the Tertiary of southern China is reported. Nageia hainanensis sp. nov. is described from the Eocene Changchang Formation of Hainan Island. The extant species of Nageia are widely distributed in southeastern Asia, from northeastern India to southeastern China and southern Japan, and southward through Indochina to the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. The fossil evidence of Nageia has been discovered from the Lower Cretaceous of the Far East of Russia and Japan. The distribution of both modern and fossil species of Nageia indicates that this genus could have originated in the northeastern part of Asia in the Early Cretaceous and spread to south China at least in the Eocene. Discovery of Nageia fossil record in south China provides important evidence for the geological and phytogeographic history of the genus.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40972011 and 40672017), the NSFC-RFBR joint projects (40811120033 and 07-04-92127), the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (06023161), and the National Talented Person Foundation of China (J0730638).
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Jin, J., Qiu, J., Zhu, Y. et al. First fossil record of the genus Nageia (Podocarpaceae) in south China and its phytogeographic implications. Plant Syst Evol 285, 159–163 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-010-0267-4
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