Comprehensive survey of Early to Middle Triassic Gondwanan floras reveals under-representation of plant–arthropod interactions

HA Turner, S McLoughlin, C Mays - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Plants and arthropods are primary drivers of terrestrial ecosystem function. Trace fossils of
plant–arthropod interactions (PAIs) provide a unique window into assessing terrestrial …

Large woody debris accumulations in the Late Pennsylvanian tropics—evolutionary signal or tectono-climatic archive?

S Trümper, V Mencl, S Opluštil, S Niemirowska… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
By colonizing drylands, plants fundamentally changed continental deposition and, thus,
intensified the interaction between life and sediments. Fossil large woody debris in epiclastic …

The Ordovician System in the Levant region (Middle East) and southern Turkey: review of depositional facies, fauna and stratigraphy

O Elicki, T Meischner, S Gürsu, JF Ghienne, A Masri… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Ordovician System in the Levant region (Middle East) and southern Turkey: review of
depositional facies, fauna and stratigraphy | A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part …

Plant-insect interactions in the mid-Cretaceous paleotropical El Chango Lagerstätte (Cintalapa Fm., Mexico)—patterns of herbivory during the Angiosperm Terrestrial …

AA Santos, S McLoughlin… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Plants and insects are two of the more diverse and abundant organisms in terrestrial
ecosystems. The fossil record of plant-insect interactions offers crucial insights into the …

Leaves and megasporophylls of Cycadophytes from the Lower Cretaceous of Beishan area, Gansu Province, Northwest China, and their evolutionary significance

A Li, B Du, J Peng, S Lin, J Zhang, G Ma, J Hui - Cretaceous Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Cycadophytes comprise ancient lineages of seed plants, and include Cycadales and
Bennettitales. In this study, Phasmatocycas mazongshanensis sp. nov., represented by …

No cell is an island: characterising the leaf epidermis using epidermalmorph, a new R package

MJM Brown, GJ Jordan - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The leaf epidermis is the interface between a plant and its environment. The epidermis is
highly variable in morphology, with links to both phylogeny and environment, and this …

Palynological variability within the Permian (Changhsingian) Umm Irna Formation (Jordan): implications for biostratigraphy and fluid-flow character in alluvial …

MH Stephenson, B Bomfleur, PE Jardine… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Permian (Changhsingian) Umm Irna Formation (Jordan) yields important plant
fossils that have influenced our understanding of the early evolution of plants that later …

The fossil flora of the Dead Sea region, Jordan–A late Permian Garden of Delights

H Kerp, P Blomenkemper, AA Hamad… - Journal of …, 2021 - jpsonline.co.in
Abstract The Umm Irna Formation, Jordan, holds one of the most peculiar late Permian plant–
fossil assemblages worldwide. Over the last decades of field work, several localities close to …

[HTML][HTML] Nilssoniopteris longifolius Chang from the Middle–Late Jurassic of China: Implications for Bennettitales-insect interactions

X Wang, Q Ding, AA Santos, T Wappler - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The good preservation of a new specimen allows us to recognize Nilssoniopteris longifolius
Chang from the Middle–Late Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation near Daohugou Village …

Early Marattiaceae from the late Permian Umm Irna Formation, Jordan

H Kerp, KK Krause, AA Hamad, B Bomfleur - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report four species of Marattiaceae from upper Permian deposits in the Dead Sea
region, Jordan that are assigned to the genera Dizeugotheca Archangelsky et de la Sota …