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Lower Cretaceous Angiosperms

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IN the course of my work at the British Museum on Cretaceous plants, I have examined a number of more or less perfectly petrified “woods.” Such specimens have generally been classed together as “Gymnosperms,” so that they have received little attention from palæobotanists. As I am undertaking an exhaustive study of the Cretaceous plants, the keeper of geology has had sections made of all the likely specimens of woods.

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STOPES, M. Lower Cretaceous Angiosperms. Nature 85, 139 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085139a0

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