The fossil history of palms (Arecaceae) in Africa and new records from the Late Oligocene (28–27 Mya) of north-western Ethiopia

By A. Pan, B. Jacobs, J. Dransfield, W. Baker. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Forestry

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Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. I. Historical biogeography (2013, background): “This hypothesis was based primarily on fossil evidence in the precollision Cenozoic of India for Eugeissona (Morley, 1998), the sister group of all remaining Calamoideae, which was interpreted as evidence for a vicariance driven by Gondwanan break-up.”
Monocot fossils suitable for molecular dating analyses (2015, unknown): “were recently discovered in Ethiopia (Pan et al., 2006).”
The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems (2015, background): “…of climate-driven range shifts within continents are known; these examples include drying-linked range contractions among African palms during the past 30 million years (Pan et al. 2006) and orbitally driven range oscillations in tree taxa in Europe during the Pliocene (Willis et al. 1999).”
Historical legacies in the geographical diversity patterns of New World palm (Arecaceae) subfamilies (2006, background): “With the exception of Africa (e.g. Gregor & Hagn, 1982; Pan et al. 2006), only a few southern hemisphere coryphoid fossils are known [but see Engelhardt et al. (1891)].”
Odd man out: why are there fewer plant species in African rain forests? (2014, background): “In Africa, the K/Pg event is documented by the extinction of 50 % of gymnosperms taxa (Morley 2000) and around 47 % of palm fossil taxa in West Arica (Pan et al. 2005).”
Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. II. Diversification history and origin of regional assemblages (2013, background): “…correlate well with the first evidence during the latest Cretaceous of the establishment and diversification of TRFs in Africa and South America (Burnham & Johnson, 2004; Morley, 2007; Jaramillo et al., 2010) and the palm pollen fossil record from the Maastrichtian of Africa (Pan et al., 2006).”