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 …

Cretaceous climates: Map** paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a Bayesian statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies

L Burgener, E Hyland, BJ Reich, C Scotese - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 Ma) was a prolonged warmhouse to hothouse
period characterized by high atmospheric CO 2 conditions, elevated surface temperatures …

[HTML][HTML] The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data …

CJ Hollis, T Dunkley Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The early Eocene (56 to 48 million years ago) is inferred to have been the most recent time
that Earth's atmospheric CO 2 concentrations exceeded 1000 ppm. Global mean …

[HTML][HTML] The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest

Z **ong, L Ding, RA Spicer, A Farnsworth… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Views differ on the uplift history of the SE Tibetan Plateau and causal geodynamic
mechanisms, yet reliable age-constrained paleoaltimetry in this region could test growth …

[HTML][HTML] Cenozoic topography, monsoons and biodiversity conservation within the Tibetan Region: An evolving story

RA Spicer, A Farnsworth, T Su - Plant Diversity, 2020 - Elsevier
The biodiversity of the Himalaya, Hengduan Mountains and Tibet, here collectively termed
the Tibetan Region, is exceptional in a global context. To contextualize and understand the …

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 …

The global abundance of tree palms

R Muscarella, T Emilio, OL Phillips… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that
provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily …

Major turnover of biotas across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary on the Tibetan Plateau

T Deng, F Wu, S Wang, T Su, Z Zhou - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review evidence for a major biotic turnover across the Oligocene/Miocene
in the Tibetan Plateau region. Based on the recent study of six well-preserved fossil sites …

Rapid Eocene diversification of spiny plants in subtropical woodlands of central Tibet

X Zhang, U Gélin, RA Spicer, F Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spinescence is an important functional trait possessed by many plant species for physical
defence against mammalian herbivores. The development of spinescence must have been …

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 …