[Rockhounds] Mysterious plant fossil from Green River Formation, Utah, belongs to a family that no longer exists

[Paul]

Mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists
by Makena Lang, Florida Museum of Natural History, PhysOrg, December 17, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-mysterious-fossil-family-longer.html
 
The paywalled paper is:
 
Manchester, S.R., Judd, W.S. and Correa-Narvaez, J.E., 2024.
Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Othniophyton
elongatum (MacGinitie) gen. et comb. nov., an extinct
angiosperm of possible caryophyllalean affinity from the
Eocene of Colorado and Utah, USA. Annals of Botany, p.mcae196.
https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aob/mcae196/7888709?login=false
 
Yours,

Paul H.