The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an overview of research to date

SF Poropat, SK Martin, AMP Tosolini… - Alcheringa: An …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Poropat, SF, Martin, SK, Tosolini, A.-MP, Wagstaff, BE, Bean, LB, Kear, BP, Vickers-Rich, P.
& Rich, TH, May 2018. Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an …

Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth

JP Klages, U Salzmann, T Bickert, CD Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The mid-Cretaceous period was one of the warmest intervals of the past 140 million years,,,–
, driven by atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of around 1,000 parts per million by volume. In …

Improving the Ginkgo CO2 barometer: implications for the early Cenozoic atmosphere

RS Barclay, SL Wing - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Stomatal properties of fossil Ginkgo have been used widely to infer the atmospheric
concentration of CO 2 in the geological past (paleo-pCO 2). Many of these estimates of …

Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems

JD Stilwell, A Langendam, C Mays, LJM Sutherland… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Northern Hemisphere dominates our knowledge of Mesozoic and Cenozoic
fossilized tree resin (amber) with few findings from the high southern paleolatitudes of …

Paleobotany and global change: Important lessons for species to biomes from vegetation responses to past global change

JC McElwain - Annual review of plant biology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Human carbon use during the next century will lead to atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations (p CO2) that have been unprecedented for the past 50–100+ million years …

[HTML][HTML] Significant transient pCO2 perturbation at the New Zealand Oligocene-Miocene transition recorded by fossil plant stomata

M Steinthorsdottir, V Vajda, M Pole - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2019 - Elsevier
The reorganisation of Earth's climate system from the Oligocene to the Miocene was
influenced by complex interactions between Tethyan tectonics, orbital parameters …

[PDF][PDF] Pushing the limits of neutron tomography in palaeontology: three-dimensional modelling of in situ resin within fossil plants

C Mays, J Bevitt, J Stilwell - Palaeontologia Electronica, 2017 - diva-portal.org
Computed tomography is an increasingly popular technique for the non-destructive study of
fossils. Whilst the science of X-ray computed tomography (CT) has greatly matured since its …

[HTML][HTML] Global trends of pCO2 across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary supported by the first Southern Hemisphere stomatal proxy-based pCO2 reconstruction

M Steinthorsdottir, V Vajda, M Pole - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Reliable reconstructions of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations (pCO 2) are required
at higher resolution than currently available to help resolve the relationship between mass …

[HTML][HTML] Fossil seed fern Lepidopteris ottonis from Sweden records increasing CO2 concentration during the end-Triassic extinction event

M Slodownik, V Vajda, M Steinthorsdottir - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
The end-Triassic event (ETE), a short global interval occurring at the end of the Triassic
Period (~ 201.5 Ma), was characterized by climate change, environmental upheaval, as well …