Hello! Brand new to Bluesky so I thought I'd make a post sharing a new-ish paper of ours in IJPS on unraveling a bit more of the deceptively complex diversity of sycamores/planetrees in ancient western North America.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Print version out January 2025! 🍂🍁
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Compound-Leaved Platanaceae in the Eocene of Western North America | International Journal of Plant Sciences
Premise of research. The genus Platanites, an extinct platanoid distinctive because of its trifoliolate compound leaves, has previously been documented only from the late Cretaceous and Paleocene of w...