Biodiversity of ecosystems in an arid setting: The late Albian plant communities and associated biota from eastern Iberia

E Barrón, D Peyrot, CA Bueno-Cebollada, J Kvaček… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Deserts are stressful environments where the living beings must acquire different strategies
to survive due to the water stress conditions. From the late Albian to the early Cenomanian …

A tropical lotus from the middle Miocene tropical rainforest flora of South China

JL Dong, JX Gao, Z Li, BN Sun - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2022 - Elsevier
We report a new species of Nelumbo including all leaves, receptacles, fruits, and rhizomes
from the Fotan flora, namely Nelumbo fujianensis sp. nov. from the middle Miocene Fotan …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing the Callianthus plant–An early aquatic angiosperm from the Lower Cretaceous of China

X Wang, C Shih, ZJ Liu, L Lin, KJ Singh - Cretaceous Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in northeastern China has shed unique
light on the early evolution of angiosperms, including Chaoyangia, Archaefructus …

Paisia, an Early Cretaceous eudicot angiosperm flower with pantoporate pollen from Portugal

EM Friis, MM Mendes, KR Pedersen - Grana, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
A new fossil angiosperm, Paisia pantoporata, is described from the Early Cretaceous
Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal, based on coalified floral buds, flowers and isolated floral …

Plant–insect interactions on aquatic and terrestrial angiosperms from the latest Albian (Early Cretaceous) of Estercuel (northeastern Spain) and their …

AA Santos, LM Sender, T Wappler, JB Diez - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fossils of plant–insect interactions are direct evidence of paleoecological relationships
between these two dominant groups in terrestrial ecosystems. We present a variety of plant …

First records of the angiosperm genus Sapindopsis Fontaine (Platanaceae) in western Eurasia from middle to latest Albian deposits of Spain

LM Sender, JA Doyle, U Villanueva-Amadoz… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2016 - Elsevier
The genus Sapindopsis was originally described from Albian deposits of the Potomac Group
in the United States, and leaves of this genus have been found in Albian to Cenomanian …

Leaf and inflorescence evidence for near-basal Araceae and an unexpected diversity of other monocots from the late Early Cretaceous of Spain

LM Sender, JA Doyle, GR Upchurch Jr… - Journal of Systematic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Phylogenetic analyses imply that monocots were a key group in the early radiation of
angiosperms, yet they are much rarer than other major clades in the Early Cretaceous …

[PDF][PDF] Taphonomy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a new amber-bearing outcrop from the mid-Cretaceous of the Maestrazgo Basin (E Iberian Peninsula).

S Álvarez-Parra, CA Bueno-Cebollada… - Spanish journal of …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Cretaceous amber-bearing outcrops are numerous and mainly distributed along the
Northern Hemisphere. They have been related to extensive resin mass production occurring …

First evidence of insect herbivory on Albian aquatic angiosperms of the NE Iberian Peninsula

P Estevez-Gallardo, LM Sender, E Mayoral… - … Science Transactions of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Evidence of herbivory on Laurasian Nymphaeaceae leaves from Lower Cretaceous (Upper
Albian) deposits is presented for the first time. The types of damage on leaves consist of both …

[HTML][HTML] A turtle from northeastern Spain reveals that the dispersal of Pelomedusoides from Gondwana to Laurasia probably occurred in the Early Cretaceous

A Pérez-García, C Rubio - Cretaceous Research, 2024 - Elsevier
A turtle carapace, identified as Algorachelus cf. peregrina (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides,
Bothremydidae), is reported here from the shallow marine deposits of the Boundary Marls …