Floristic composition and variation in late Paleocene to early Eocene floras in North America

Neotropical moss floras: Species common to North and South America

North and South America share about 675 species that show two basic patterns, namely, those with a continuous range and those with a disjunct distribution. Both may have resulted from step-bystep migration, but the latter, including 118 species, may be due to break up of previous distributions by post-Tertiary tectonic and climatic changes or by long-distance dispersal. The distribution of vasc...

Decline of coral reefs during late Paleocene to early Eocene global warming

Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Paleoclimate Reconstructions: The Digital Leaf Physiognomy Approach

Understanding long-term carbon cycle trends: The late Paleocene through the early Eocene

[1] The late Paleocene to the early Eocene ( 58–52 Ma) was marked by significant changes in global climate and carbon cycling. The evidence for these changes includes stable isotope records that reveal prominent decreases in ı18O and ı13C, suggesting a rise in Earth’s surface temperature ( 4ıC) and a drop in net carbon output from the ocean and atmosphere. Concurrently, deep-sea carbonate recor...

Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, primates).

Plesiadapis cookei is an extinct relative of extant euarchontans (primates, dermopterans; scandentians), which lived in North America during the late Paleocene. P. cookei body mass has been estimated to be approximately 2.2 kg, making it large compared with other species of its genus from North America, but similar to some from Europe. In particular, size as well as dental form similarities to ...