Showing papers in "Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology in 2015"

TL;DR: Pollen records and pollen-based climate reconstructions from the Italian peninsula (central Mediterranean) show clear signals of vegetation change linked to variations in water availability in the Mediterranean basin over the past 5 million years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the census of the Holocene archaeological sites that have been studied as part of archaeobotany in Italy (continental Italy, the Italian peninsula and islands) over the last quarter in a century.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of palaeofloras coming from different locations ranging from 36-38°N and 40-42°N latitudinal intervals in the northeastern Mediterranean (including Anatolian coastal regions) with those from Europe and North Africa is done.

TL;DR: The Latin American Pollen Database (LAPD) as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive inventory of publications in peer-reviewed and grey literature that show a major expansion of studies over the last decades.

TL;DR: New tropical and subtropical elements of this flora that co-occurred with Dipterocarpaceae are described that show more affinities with Indian Neogene floras than with other Chinese palaeofloras, and it is proposed that the route of exchange between the Indian and South Chinese Miocene floras passed through South-East Asia.

TL;DR: In this article, the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation (Darriwilian) from Saudi Arabia were recovered from wells KAHF-1 and TAYM-4, which include a variety of cryptospore tetrads, dyads and monads.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a random sampling strategy to collect moss polsters at 20 sites in Changbai Mountain, northeastern China, and performed a detailed vegetation survey within 1000m radius around each sampling point and digitized vegetation maps were used for, vegetation data compilation.

TL;DR: In this article, the Holocene distribution of nine tree taxa (Picea, Abies, Betula, Fagus, Carpinus betulus, Corylus, deciduous and evergreen Quercus, and Olea ) in Italy is visually shown by pollen maps.

TL;DR: In this article, an Extended R-Valuemodel was applied to assess the relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and to calculate the PPEs for the dominant tree in the region, Larix gmelinii.

TL;DR: A review of the archaeobotanical analyses carried out in the last decade at the three ancient Roman port/dock system sites of Pisae, Portus, and Neapolis is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a palynological study of two Permian-Triassic sections of the Southern Alps (Tesero and Bulla sections) was carried out in order to correlate the palynology data with the available conodont zones.

TL;DR: Pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs), diatoms, and geochemistry of lake sediments with partially preserved annual lamination were used to reconstruct postglacial environmental changes of northern Poland in the Baltic region as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, 154 palynological samples from eight outcrop localities on the island of Hopen, Svalbard Archipelago, were analysed and a revised age interpretation for Hopen is provided based on the integration of palynology and independent chrono- and biostratigraphic evidence.

TL;DR: A diverse taphocoenosis in a piece of Mexican amber that includes two morphotypes assignable to the leafy liverwort family Lejeuneaceae, an angiosperm seed, a putative bud scale, dematiaceous hyphomycetes as well as dipteran and hymenopteran insects belonging to Phoridae, Cecidomyiidae, Psychodidae and Mymaridae is described.

TL;DR: In this article, centennial resolution pollen analysis of a record from Lake Silvituc, Yucatan Peninsula, provides a 7900-cal-yr BP record of vegetation history and climate change in the Maya lowlands.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the Upper Ordovician and lowermost Silurian parts of the core hole and identified four different chitinozoan assemblages.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sequence of Upper Ordovician to lowermost Silurian sediments from the Qusaiba-1 core hole drilled in the Qasim region of central Saudi Arabia has yielded rich palynomorph assemblages.

TL;DR: A newly discovered fossil forest is reported from Lower Pennsylvanian (late Langsettian) strata in the classic Amroth to Wiseman's Bridge section of Pembrokeshire, South Wales.

TL;DR: Arthropitys isoramis sp. nov. as discussed by the authors is derived from the Permian Motuca Formation in northern Tocantins and was discovered in fluvial deposits, which originated under seasonal conditions in a widely distributed alluvial plain environment.

TL;DR: In this article, seven fossil leaves with cuticle described here were collected from the lower, middle and upper strata of Siwalik (middle Miocene-lower Pleistocene) sediments of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

TL;DR: Analysis of relictual bryophyte species indicates that the ancestral spore types would be tetrahedral with trifacial proximal surfaces having less ornamentation than the distal surfaces.

TL;DR: In this article, a new interpretation of the crisis of the terramare as being caused by wood loss and water shortages is suggested from on-site pollen analyses, based on which the Terramara di Baggiovara and the Necropoli di Casinalbo sites were inhabited from c. 1650 to c. 1150 BC.

TL;DR: In the Qusaiba-1 shallow core hole of central Saudi Arabia, a number of well-preserved acritarchs are documented from Upper Ordovician and lower Silurian sections in the Quwarah Member of the Qasim Formation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Pseudofrenelopsis capillata sp. nov as discussed by the authors grows in a riparian environment along the borders of a large lake as a minor constituent of the surrounding vegetation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new Turonian regional reference core (Bch-1) was used to provide the highest resolution stratigraphically well-constrained data set available to date for the Turonian Stage, 93.9-89.8 Ma.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace a fine-scale prehistoric human impact in two pollen diagrams from the Lusatian Mountains (foothills) and the Bohemian Forest (central mountains).

TL;DR: The late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar, has yielded a diversified assemblage of silicified wood including some of the earliest recorded Dipterocarpaceae.

TL;DR: Radmacher et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a palynostratigraphic framework for the upper Albian to upper Maastrichtian succession in this area based on a unique composite section combining samples from the shallow stratigraphic core 6711/4-U-1 and core-samples from well 6707/10-1.

TL;DR: The Qusaiba-1 shallow core hole was drilled to a total depth of 551ft in the northwest of the Buraydah quadrangle in central Saudi Arabia as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Rhyniosarcina devonica is interpreted as a cyanobacterium with affinities to the Chroococcales based on morphological similarities to extant colony-forming chroOCoccalean cyanobacteria, especially members in the genus Cyanosarcina.