J. Ian Raine

TL;DR: The New Zealand Fossil Record File as mentioned in this paper is an essentially complete compilation of New Zealand's known fossil record, with additional records from parts of Antarctica, SW Pacific, and elsewhere, is, to the best of our knowledge, unique.

TL;DR: In this paper, the morphology, taxonomy, and stratigraphic occurrence of zonate lycophytic spores recovered from New Zealand Cretaceous to Paleogene strata are reviewed.

TL;DR: Three types of fossil fern fronds bearing sporangia with in situ spores are described from the late Eocene Pikopiko Fossil Forest, southern New Zealand, suggesting that ferns dominated the evergreen, tall forest understorey as in modern New Zealand rainforests.

TL;DR: Proteaceae pollen in the Garden Cove Formation on Campbell Island is consistent with the fossil record from neighbouring landmasses but strongly contrasts with the impoverished record of the family in the extant New Zealand flora as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors used biomarkers to reconstruct temperature change and CH4 cycling in a new PETM-aged succession in New Zealand and found that the stable carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of bacterial hopanoids decreased to very low values (−60‰) during the onset of the PETM, indicating enhanced consumption of CH4.