Three paleontologists visit Sunday Canyon to verify Cornet's discovery.
Embryo casts showing a convex side (large cotyledon) and a flat side (small cotyledon), along with picture of leaf cuticle containing preserved stomata and one small leaf vein.
From: The leaf venation and reproductive structures of a Late Triassic angiosperm, Sanmiguelia lewisii (Cornet, 1986, Evolutionary Theory, Vol. 7, No. 5, 231-309).
Jurassic Lily-like pollen (pictures below)
http://bcornet.tripod.com/Cornet92/CH92a.htm
The fortuitous discovery of Lily-like pollen that resembles Stellatopollis from the Early Cretaceous in Late Jurassic deposits puts a major kink in the arguments of paleobotanists who think pre-Cretaceous angiosperms do not exist.
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Comparison of Stellatopollis pocockii (Upper Jurassic) with Lilium bulbiferum (extant Easter Lily) Plate II: 1,3-6: Stellatopollis pocockii 2: Lilium bulbiferum. Plate III: 2: Stellatopollis pocockii 1: Lilium bulbiferum. |
Angiosperm-like pollen from the ammonite-dated
Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) of France (Cornet & Habib, 1992, Review of Palaeobotany and
Palynology, 71, 269-294).
http://bcornet.tripod.com/Cornet92/CH92a.htm
A list of Cornet's online publications with links.
