Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

CD Bacon, D Silvestro, C Jaramillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The linking of North and South America by the Isthmus of Panama had major impacts on
global climate, oceanic and atmospheric currents, and biodiversity, yet the timing of this …

The Amazon at sea: Onset and stages of the Amazon River from a marine record, with special reference to Neogene plant turnover in the drainage basin

C Hoorn, GR Bogotá-A, M Romero-Baez… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Amazon submarine fan is a large sediment apron situated offshore Pará (Brazil) and
represents the most distal extent of the Amazon River. The age of onset of this …

Investigating processes of neotropical rain forest tree diversification by examining the evolution and historical biogeography of the Protieae (Burseraceae)

PVA Fine, F Zapata, DC Daly - Evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Andean uplift and the collision of North and South America are thought to have major
implications for the diversification of the Neotropical biota. However, few studies have …

Evolution of the Isthmus of Panama: biological, paleoceanographic and paleoclimatological implications

C Jaramillo, K Hoorn, A Perrigo… - Mountains, climate and …, 2018 - books.google.com
The rise of the Isthmus of Panama was the product of small‐scale geological processes that,
nonetheless, had worldwide repercussions. The building of the Panamanian landscape can …

Quaternary glaciation and the great American biotic interchange

CD Bacon, P Molnar, A Antonelli, AJ Crawford… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent geological studies demonstrate that the Isthmus of Panama emerged some 10 my
earlier than previously assumed. Although absent today in Panama, Central American …

First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange

JI Bloch, ED Woodruff, AR Wood, AF Rincon… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
New World monkeys (platyrrhines) are a diverse part of modern tropical ecosystems in North
and South America, yet their early evolutionary history in the tropics is largely unknown …

Palynological study of fossil plants from Miocene Murree Formation of Pakistan: Clues to investigate palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment

S Ahmad, M Ahmad, M Fawzy Ramadan, S Sultana… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Palaeoflora in Pakistan in the Miocene is characterized by its high biodiversity. The present
study investigated the pollen of fossil plants from the Murree Formation of Pakistan. Shales …

Late Eocene (Priabonian) dinoflagellate cysts from Primorsky quarry, southeast Baltic coast, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

AI Iakovleva, GN Aleksandrova, EV Mychko - Palynology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Forty-seven rock samples from the stratotypes of three upper Paleogene formations–
Prussian, Palvé, and Kurshskaya formations–were collected from the biggest amber deposit …

Global changes in terrestrial vegetation and continental climate during the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum

VA Korasidis, SL Wing, CA Shields… - Paleoceanography and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Most studies of the response of terrestrial vegetation to climate change during the
Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) have focused on individual sites and …

Drastic vegetation change in the Guajira Peninsula (Colombia) during the Neogene

C Jaramillo, P Sepulchre, D Cardenas… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dry biomes occupy~ 35% of the landscape in the Neotropics, but these are heavily human‐
disturbed. In spite of their importance, we still do not fully understand their origins and how …