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Chaoyangia liangii
Chaoyangia liangii S.-Y. Duan Sci. China, D, 41(1): 14. Feb 1998
- Name
- Chaoyangia liangii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Chaoyangia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Duan S.-Y.
- Publication
- The oldest angiosperm - a tricarpous female reproductive fossil from western Liaoning Province, NE China [1998/2]
- Journal
- Science in China
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 14
- Year
- 1998
- Fossil Status
- infructescences
- Stratigraphy
- Aptian
- Strat. comment
- Yixian Formation [Upper Jurassic in error]
- Location
- Chaoyang district, Liaoning Province, P.R. China
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (China)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository Number
- 9341
- Diagnosis
- Cyme composed of several female reproductive organs each with a tricarpous. Each organ with 3 distinct terminal styles and an apical stigma, each style linked to an ovary. Rachis with several parallel striations, branches opposite from a scape on an expanded node, and continuing
to fork 2-3 times and becoming thinner distally. Reproductive organs terminate each rachis. Many thinner and forked linear appendages crowd on the outside of each organ.
