Eastern Asian endemic seed plant genera and their paleogeographic history throughout the Northern Hemisphere

SR Manchester, ZD CHEN, AM LU… - Journal of Systematics …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We review the fossil history of seed plant genera that are now endemic to eastern Asia.
Although the majority of eastern Asian endemic genera have no known fossil record at all …

Insect‐damaged fossil leaves record food web response to ancient climate change and extinction

P Wilf - New Phytologist, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Plants and herbivorous insects have dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 300 million
years. Uniquely in the fossil record, foliage with well‐preserved insect damage offers …

No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants, Menat, France

T Wappler, ED Currano, P Wilf… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Insect herbivores are considered vulnerable to extinctions of their plant hosts. Previous
studies of insect-damaged fossil leaves in the US Western Interior showed major plant and …

[HTML][HTML] The Tetracentron genome provides insight into the early evolution of eudicots and the formation of vessel elements

PL Liu, X Zhang, JF Mao, YM Hong, RG Zhang, YE… - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Tetracentron sinense is an endemic and endangered deciduous tree. It belongs
to the Trochodendrales, one of four early diverging lineages of eudicots known for having …

Chloroplast phylogeography of the East Asian Arcto‐Tertiary relict Tetracentron sinense (Trochodendraceae)

Y Sun, MJ Moore, L Yue, T Feng, H Chu… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A phylogeographical study of the widespread but phylogenetically isolated East Asian
endemic tree species Tetracentron sinense (Trochodendraceae) was performed to evaluate …

[HTML][HTML] Complete plastid genome sequencing of Trochodendraceae reveals a significant expansion of the inverted repeat and suggests a Paleogene divergence …

Y Sun, MJ Moore, A Meng, PS Soltis, DE Soltis, J Li… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The early-diverging eudicot order Trochodendrales contains only two monospecific genera,
Tetracentron and Trochodendron. Although an extensive fossil record indicates that the …

Floristic composition and comparison of middle Eocene to late Eocene and Oligocene floras in North America

ML DeVore, KB Pigg - Bulletin of Geosciences, 2010 - kb.gcsu.edu
In comparison to the early and middle Eocene, the late Eocene and particularly the
Oligocene floral record is sparse in North America. Changing tectonic, environmental and …

Pollen, fruits, and leaves of Tetracentron (Trochodendraceae) from the Cainozoic of Iceland and western North America and their palaeobiogeographic implications

F Grímsson, T Denk, R Zetter - Grana, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Dispersed pollen, fruits, and leaves of Tetracentron (Trochodendraceae) are described from
the Miocene of Iceland and assigned to a new species, Tetracentron atlanticum. The …

A combined light and scanning electron microscopy study

JM Bouchal, R Zetter, T Denk - Grana, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The uppermost Eocene Florissant Formation, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, has
yielded numerous insect, vertebrate and plant fossils. Three previous comprehensive …

Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: part III. Magnoliophyta 1–Magnoliales to Fabales

F Grímsson, B Meller, JM Bouchal, R Zetter - Grana, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies on the palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin show that it contains a rich
assemblage of spores and gymnosperm pollen. Present and ongoing investigations of …