No high Tibetan plateau until the Neogene

T Su, A Farnsworth, RA Spicer, J Huang, FX Wu… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The Late Paleogene surface height and paleoenvironment for the core area of the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remain critically unresolved. Here, we report the discovery of the …

Phytoliths in paleoecology: analytical considerations, current use, and future directions

CAE Strömberg, RE Dunn, C Crifò… - Methods in paleoecology …, 2018 - Springer
Phytoliths, microscopic plant silica bodies, are often preserved in modern and fossil soils
and sediment, as well as in archaeological contexts. They record unique characteristics of …

The relation between global palm distribution and climate

T Reichgelt, CK West, DR Greenwood - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Fossil palms provide qualitative evidence of (sub-) tropical conditions and frost-free winters
in the geological past, including modern cold climate regions (eg, boreal, or polar climates) …

A review of palm macrofossils from India and perspectives

S Kumar, SR Manchester, T Hazra, MA Khan - Arabian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Palms, regarded as a model group for megathermal forest evolution, are well represented in
the fossil record, where they are one of the earliest recognizable modern angiosperm …

[HTML][HTML] Coleoptera from the middle-upper Eocene European ambers: generic composition, zoogeography and climatic implications

VI Alekseev - Zootaxa, 2017 - mapress.com
The paper contains a review of coleopteran genera known from Baltic, Bitterfeld and Rovno
amber localities. Altogether 420 genera (191 extinct and 229 extant) from 78 families are …

Eocene giant ants, Arctic intercontinental dispersal, and hyperthermals revisited: discovery of fossil Titanomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formiciinae) in the cool …

SB Archibald, RW Mathewes, A Aase - The Canadian Entomologist, 2023 - cambridge.org
We examine the implications for intercontinental dispersal of the extinct ant genus,
Titanomyrma Archibald et al.(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formiciinae), following the …

Biotic interchange through lowlands of Tibetan Plateau suture zones during Paleogene

J Liu, T Su, RA Spicer, HE Tang, FX Wu… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
A substantial biotic interchange took place between Gondwanan India and Laurasia
immediately following the India-Eurasia collision. Located just north of the collision zone, the …

A review of paleobotanical studies of the Early Eocene Okanagan (Okanogan) Highlands floras of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA

DR Greenwood, KB Pigg, JF Basinger… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The history of plant fossil collecting in the Okanagan (Okanogan) Highlands of British
Columbia and northeastern Washington is closely intertwined with the history of geological …

Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America

SB Archibald, AP Rasnitsyn, DJ Brothers… - The Canadian …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Most major modern families of Hymenoptera were established in the Mesozoic, but the
diversifications within ecologically key trophic guilds and lineages that significantly influence …

[HTML][HTML] Paleobotanical proxies for early Eocene climates and ecosystems in northern North America from middle to high latitudes

CK West, DR Greenwood, T Reichgelt… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Early Eocene climates were globally warm, with ice-free conditions at both poles. Early
Eocene polar landmasses supported extensive forest ecosystems of a primarily temperate …