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search image for future paleontological explora-
tion. We anticipate that targeted search in similar
paleo-equatorial lowland settings will help un-
cover the early origins of evolutionary innovation.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the University of Jordan (Amman) for support; N. S. and

H. S. Badandi (Irbid, Jordan), F. Scholze and J. W. Schneider

(Freiberg, Germany), and S. Voigt (Thallichtenberg, Germany) for

fieldwork assistance; and S. McLoughlin (Stockholm, Sweden),

M. Pole (Toowong, Australia), C. Pott (Münster, Germany), and

three anonymous reviewers for helpful discussion.Funding:

Financial support was provided by the German Science Foundation

(DFG Emmy Noether grant BO3131/1-1,“Latitudinal Patterns in

Plant Evolution,”to B.B. and DFG grants KE584/11-1+2 and KE584/

20-1 to H.K.).Author contributions:All authors contributed

equally to the work.Competing interests:The authors declare no

competing interests.Data and materials availability:All data are

available in the main text and the supplementary materials; all

fossil material is housed in the palaeobotanical collections at the

Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Westfälische

Wilhelms-Universität (Münster, Germany).

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

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