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2013
Journal article
A Triassic seed with an angiosperm-like wind dispersal mechanism
The earliest record of a seed with a pappus-like, parachute seed dispersal mechanism, Edenia villisperma gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Triassic of the eastern United States. The seed is small and roughly triangular. Clusters of long hairs emerge from a whorl of at least five circular...Axsmith, Brian J ; Fraser, Nicholas C ; Corso, Taryn
Newark Supergroup, seed, wind dispersal, angiosperm, and Triassic