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The initial diversification of Callitroideae is estimated to have occurred during the Cretaceous, yet fossils from this period are rare, hampering our understanding of its early evolutionary history.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A permineralized cluster of callitroid seed cones has been recovered from the Late Cretaceous Santa Marta Formation on James Ross Island, Antarctica. The specimen was sectioned using the acetate peel technique. We conducted a comparative morphological and anatomical investigation of the fossil with living members of Callitroideae and tested its phylogenetic placement using Bayesian and parsimony inference methods.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Each cone has four opposite\u2010decussate ovuliferous complexes, a central columella, and subtending bifacially flattened shoots. This new fossil resembles living\n                      <jats:italic>Austrocedrus<\/jats:italic>\n                      in having ovuliferous complexes with a short, apically located bract tip and an abaxial row of vascular bundles. Phylogenetic reconstructions place the fossil sister to\n                      <jats:italic>Austrocedrus chilensis<\/jats:italic>\n                      , and we erect a new species,\n                      <jats:italic>Austrocedrus vetus<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. nov.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic>Austrocedrus<\/jats:italic>\n                      is known by a handful of Cenozoic fossils from Australia and a single surviving taxon,\n                      <jats:italic>A. chilensis<\/jats:italic>\n                      , in the Southern Andes of Chile and Argentina.\n                      <jats:italic>Austrocedrus vetus<\/jats:italic>\n                      is the oldest evidence of the genus, extending its stratigraphic record by 40\u2009Ma. Our findings indicate that\n                      <jats:italic>Austrocedrus<\/jats:italic>\n                      diverged by the Campanian and experienced stasis in seed cone morphology. 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