Plant proxy evidence for high rainfall and productivity in the Eocene of Australia

T Reichgelt, DR Greenwood, S Steinig… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the early to middle Eocene, a mid‐to‐high latitudinal position and enhanced
hydrological cycle in Australia would have contributed to a wetter and “greener” Australian …

[HTML][HTML] No consistent shift in leaf dry mass per area across the Cretaceous—Paleogene boundary

MJ Butrim, DL Royer, IM Miller, M Dechesne… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Chicxulub bolide impact has been linked to a mass extinction of plants at the
Cretaceous—Paleogene boundary (KPB;∼ 66 Ma), but how this extinction affected plant …

Comparative palynomorphological study of the genus Symphoricarpos (Caprifoliaceae): exine sculpture and implications for evolution

ZM Tsymbalyuk, S Çelenk, CD Bell, LM Nitsenko… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recent molecular phylogenetic studies of Dipsacales place Symphoricarpos in a clade
containing Leycesteria, Triosteum, and Lonicera. The aim of this research was to analyze …

[HTML][HTML] Plastome phylogenomic analysis reveals evolutionary divergences of Polypodiales suborder Dennstaedtiineae

JM Lu, XY Du, LY Kuo, A Ebihara, LR Perrie, ZY Zuo… - BMC Plant …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Polypodiales suborder Dennstaedtiineae contain a single family
Dennstaedtiaceae, eleven genera, and about 270 species, and include some groups that …

[HTML][HTML] Palm fronds from western Canada are the northernmost palms from the Late Cretaceous of North America and may include the oldest Arecaceae

DR Greenwood, JG Conran, CK West - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Palm leaf fossils are common from Late Cretaceous floras in the United States, but Late
Cretaceous Canadian palm records are limited largely to Nanaimo Group strata of British …

Poleward amplification, seasonal rainfall and forest heterogeneity in the Miocene of the eastern USA

T Reichgelt, A Baumgartner, R Feng… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleoclimate reconstructions can provide a window into the environmental conditions in
Earth history when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were higher than today. In …

A combined LM and SEM study of selected palynomorphs from the palaeoflora of the Paleocene Konservat-Lagerstätte Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France)

H El Atfy, KN Paudayal, D Uhl - Botany Letters, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the course of a pilot study on the palynology of the late Paleocene (Thanetian) maar
deposits of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France), selected palynomorphs were …

The extinction of Miocene broad-leaved deciduous Nothofagaceae and loss of seasonal forest biomes in New Zealand

T Reichgelt, WG Lee, DE Lee - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantitative leaf mass per area reconstructions and prevalence of plicate vernation in broad-
leaved Nothofagaceae fossils reveal that deciduousness was common in the middle to late …

A reconstruction of the early Palaeocene palaeovegetation of Turtle Mountain, south-western Manitoba, Canada

NU Patel, DR Greenwood, CL Greenwood… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The lower Goodlands Member of the Turtle Mountain Formation is exposed in a
streambank outcrop on the western flank of Turtle Mountain, south-western Manitoba …

[PDF][PDF] The Paleocene Horse Creek florule, Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, southeastern Montana, USA

SR Manchester, A Foster, TA Lott - Acta Palaeobotanica, 2023 - researchgate.net
We investigated leaf, cone and fruit impressions preserved in a siltstone deposit between
coal seams in the late Paleocene Tongue River Member near Otter, southeast Montana, to …