Table 1. Comparison of fossil Magnoliaceae woods in chronological order. K =Cretaceous, (C)=Campanian, (M)=Maastrichtian, Eo =Eocene, Olig =Oligocene; Mio =Miocene, e =early, m =middle, up =upper; IVP
Morphological characteristics of present and other known fossil specimens (characteristic data from Burge and Manchester [4], Li et al. [10] and Correa et al. [30]).
