This book about fossil plants of prehistoric angiosperms offers the newest research on their origin. It emphasizes the early Cretaceous and Jurassic materials and integrates multiple techniques to study the morphology, anatomy and phylogeny of the fossils.

Offers a comprehensive history, for the first time documenting Pre-Cretaceous angiosperms, and showing the diversity of angiosperms in the Jurassic

Presents a new theory on flower-making that corrects misconceptions

Contains numerous pictures to illustrate fossil plants

Offers a comprehensive history, for the first time documenting Pre-Cretaceous angiosperms, and showing the diversity of angiosperms in the Jurassic Presents a new theory on flower-making that corrects misconceptions Contains numerous pictures to illustrate fossil plants Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Jun-wei Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in Control theory and Engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, in Jul. 2016. His research is mainly focused on Fault Diagnosis, Fault-Tolerant control, and Control of Network Systems. Especially, his major research results are mostly about the fault estimation observer design and the observer-based fault-tolerant control. During the doctorate study period, he has participated in many academic conferences, such as WCICA, CCC, CCDC. Besides, he was also a reviewer for some well-known scientific magazines in the field of control science, for instance, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, etc.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Suggested angiosperm ancestors.- Angiosperms: characters and criteria.- Background for the plant fossils.- Flowers from the Early Cretaceous.- Flower-related fossils from the Jurassic.- Problematic fossils.- Making of the flower.