European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference 2026

This project investigates the interplay between climate forcing and ecosystem response during Middle Eocene hyperthermal events (48–47 Ma), brief periods of rapid warming with major carbon cycle and biological changes. These events offer insight into climate sensitivity and biological adaptation for evaluating future scenarios. The study is structured around two complementary components....

The Suriname coastline, as part of the Guianas is characterized by westward migrating mudflats formed by Amazon River sediments. In this study we did palaeoenvironmental and vegetation analysis of the Suriname coast. We analysed samples from the nearshore Powisi-01 well and determined the palynological and geochemical composition of these sediments. Two main palynological zones and six...

Keywords: Upper Cretaceous, Tremp Formation, Allueva Formation, Iberian Peninsula, Paleoecology

The Campanian–Maastrichtian interval was a period of significant climatic and environmental changes that profoundly affected flora and fauna worldwide. In the NE of the Iberian Peninsula, this interval is represented at several localities documenting a faunal turnover during the...

Antarctica was home to extensive forest ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous. While a rich diversity of vascular plants have been identified from Upper Cretaceous deposits in West Antarctica, only a handful of bryophyte families have been reported. Here we provide a preliminary report of a rich permineralized bryoflora from the Campanian Sitio Feliz and Baculites Hill localities on James Ross...

The enigmatic fossil-genus Lesleya Lesquereux classified either to early cycads or to pteridosperms is considered as an “upland”, “extrabasinal”, dry-tolerant plant. New excavation in the Vaulnaveys-le-Bas (French Alps) revealed about 60 specimens of the Westphalinan D (late Moscovian) age. Unfortunately, scleritization state of preservation cause that incomplete specimens are without...

The lower Permian of the Southern Alps (N Italy) represents one of the largest and best-preserved volcanic successions of the upper Cisuralian in Europe, including the Athesian Volcanic District (AVD), the Collio Basin, and the Orobic Alps. The AVD, in particular, provides an exceptionally high-resolution chronostratigraphic framework supported by detailed geological mapping and U–Pb zircon...

During 2016 and 2017 Yale Peabody Museum field expeditions in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, Division of Paleobotany had excavations in Crystal Forest, a new fossil plant locality in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation and collected more than 173 Equisetites specimens from a carbonaceous mudstone layer. The Equisetites is represented by well-preserved young shoots, stems, leaf...

The Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) has been identified as a time of plant radiation and origination of new lineages, likely related to rapid changes from xerophytic to more hygrophytic floras. Increasing humidity, causally resulting from large igneous volcanism, is considered the likely trigger for the observed changes in terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding the cause and effects of the CPE on...

The Carnian stage is a milestone in the Mesozoic evolution of plants with the radiation of key conifer and fern groups, bennettites and Cheirolepidaceae, all temporally linked to the Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) in the Late Triassic. The CPE was a major hyperthermal event marked by climate and carbon cycle perturbations. Although widely studied, especially in the Western Tethys, patterns of...

The Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) was a major Late Triassic climatic perturbation that reshaped terrestrial ecosystems. Yet subtropical plant communities along the northwestern Tethyan margin remain comparatively underdocumented, limiting reconstructions of low latitude vegetation. The Carnian outcrop of Neuewelt (near Basel, Switzerland) preserves a significant plant macrofossil assemblage...

The Carnian, the basal stage of the Upper Triassic, is marked by an intermittent change in sedimentation style in various basins. This interval has been attributed to a climatic upheaval termed the Carnian Pluvial Episode, a time of increased humidity and runoff (Simms & Ruffell, 1989). Here we compare the Carnian palynology of two sites. The first locality is Neuewelt situated near Basel in...