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 …

Biogeography of mediterranean hotspot biodiversity: re-evaluating the'tertiary relict'hypothesis of macaronesian laurel forests

P Kondraskov, N Schütz, C Schüßler, MM de Sequeira… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The Macaronesian laurel forests (MLF) are dominated by trees with a laurophyll habit
comparable to evergreen humid forests which were scattered across Europe and the …

Vegetation and climate change at the southern margin of the Neo-Tethys during the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous): Evidence from Egypt

H El Atfy, C Coiffard, SY El Beialy, D Uhl - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Changes in terrestrial vegetation during the mid-Cretaceous and their link to climate and
environmental change are poorly understood. In this study, we use plant macrofossils and …

Rise to dominance of angiosperm pioneers in European Cretaceous environments

C Coiffard, B Gomez, V Daviero-Gomez… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
The majority of environments are dominated by flowering plants today, but it is uncertain
how this dominance originated. This increase in angiosperm diversity happened during the …

Early Cenomanian palynofloras and inferred resiniferous forests and vegetation types in Charentes (southwestern France)

D Peyrot, E Barron, F Polette, DJ Batten… - Cretaceous …, 2019 - Elsevier
A palynological analysis of 45 samples from six mid-Cretaceous amber-bearing outcrops
from Charentes has been carried out. A total of 227 taxa have been recorded in the studied …

Plant–insect interactions from the mid-Cretaceous at Puy-Puy (Aquitaine Basin, western France) indicates preferential herbivory for angiosperms amid a forest of ferns …

AA Santos, L **ao, CC Labandeira, D Néraudeau… - Botany …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Plants and insects are the two dominant groups in terrestrial ecosystems, and insect
damage on fossil plants is the only direct evidence documenting the past ecological history …

First evidence of terrestrial plants in marine deposits from the upper Albian–Cenomanian of northeastern Spain (Teruel province) and their palaeogeographic and …

LM Sender, L Mampel, A Cobos - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
A new fossil plant assemblage has been recorded in coastal marine deposits from the upper
Albian-Cenomanian of northeastern Spain, consisting of two types of gymnosperms …

Latest Cretaceous leaf floras from southern Poland and western Ukraine

AT Halamski - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2012 - BioOne
Latest Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) leaf fossil assemblages are described from
33 exposures ranging from the southern border of the Holy Cross Mountains (southern …

Cenomanian terrestrial paleoenvironments from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin in Central Europe and their implications for angiosperm paleoecology

J Kvaček, M Svobodová, J Čepičková, V Veselá… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we reconstruct the vegetation communities of five terrestrial
paleoenvironments from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Peruc-Korycany Formation of the …

First megafloristic record for the Chubut Group at Somuncurá-Cañadón Asfalto Basin: An angiosperm dominated flora from the Upper Cretaceous Puesto Manuel Arce …

MG Passalia, M Llorens, M Paez - Cretaceous Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The first association of fossil plant impressions in the Chubut Group at the Somuncurá-
Cañadón Asfalto Basin is described herein. The mid-Cretaceous megafloral assemblage …