jurassic deposits are well exposed in the bazehowz area, south west of mashhad city, east alborz, iran. it contains plant macrofossilsbelonging to eighteen species of eleven genera of various orders such as equisetales, filicales, bennettitales, cycadales,corystospermales, caytoniales, ginkgoales and pinales. two biozones were recognized in the type section of bazehowz formation.biozone i is an...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS With the recent proposal of matK and rbcL as core plant DNA barcoding regions by the Consortium for the Barcoding of Life Plant Working Group, the construction of reference libraries in the botanical DNA barcoding initiative has entered a new phase. However, in a recent DNA barcoding study in the three Mexican genera of the gymnosperm order Cycadales, we found that neither m...