from icehouse to hothouse conditions. Our multidisciplinary study documents an aridification
trend throughout the~ 1000 m thick composite terrestrial succession of the western Catalan
Pyrenees (NE Iberian Peninsula), representing this time period. The detailed stratigraphic
framework integrates sedimentology, paleopedology, biochronology (plant fossils and
tetrapod footprints) and geochronology (paleomagnetism). Additional absolute age …