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365-Million-Year-Old Winged Seed Fossil Found in China


Named Alasemenia tria, the new specimen from the Wutong Formation in the Chinese province of Anhui dates back to the Famennian stage of the the Late Devonian epoch, making it the second-earliest known winged seed.

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