Hauterivian Stage
First micro-evidence of flowering plants
First micro-evidence of flowering plants
The Hauterivian (133-129 Ma) is the third age of the Early Cretaceous, occurring after the Valanginian, and before the Barremian
Geologic Age
Geologic Age
132.6–129.4 Ma
Eon / Era / Period / Epoch
Eon / Era / Period / Epoch
What happened during this time?
What happened during this time?
The oldest definitive angiosperm fossils are pollen grains of Valanginian or Hauterivian age, ∼130 Ma (Trevisan 1988; Hughes 1994; Brenner 1996)
