Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers

• Fabiany Herrera ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fherrera@chicagobotanic.org

  Affiliation Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2412-672X

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• Gongle Shi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Chris Mays,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5416-2289

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• Niiden Ichinnorov,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Institute of Paleontology and Geology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Masamichi Takahashi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Nishi-ku, Niigata, Japan

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• Joseph J. Bevitt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, New South Wales, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-4649

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• Patrick S. Herendeen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America

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• Peter R. Crane

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia, United States of America, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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