The first fossil seed of Ampelopsis (Vitaceae) in South China

Ampelopsis Michx. (Vitaceae) contains more than 30 species and is discontinuously distributed in Eurasia, North America, Central America. China hosts an abundance of species. Until now, fossil records have been reported only from the Paleocene to Pleistocene Europe, Eocene Pliocene Asia, Miocene Although abundant widespread today, no fossils so far found there, except for seed Upper Yunnan. In this study, a japonica (Thunb.) Makino was recovered Maoming Basin, Guangdong province. It first South China. This finding shows that low latitudes Late Pleistocene. Global cooling during last glaciation might led southward spread genus low-latitude areas According structural characteristics our fossil, it speculated aborted ovule, which common fruits extant , existed