The tertiary flora of Southeast Asia with remarks on its palaeoenvironment and phytogeography of the Indo-Malayan region

Late middle Eocene fossil wood of Myanmar: Implications for the landscape and the climate of the Eocene Bengal Bay

“…Bande and Prakash, 1986; the magnetostratigraphic polarity of these deposits (Benammi et al, 2002) and recent U/Pb and fission-track ages of detrital zircons (Tsubamoto et al, 2002(Tsubamoto et al, , 2011Zaw et al, 2015) indicate a correlation with the chron C38n, dated between 40.1 and 38.6 Myr (Gradstein et al, 2012). Pondaung deposits are thus contemporary with the end of the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO), the most prominent transient warming episode of the middle Eocene, and its subsequent cooling event (Bohaty and Zachos, 2003;Villa et al, 2008;Bijl et al, 2010;Bosboom et al, 2014).…”

A tropical forest of the middle Miocene of Fujian (SE China) reveals Sino-Indian biogeographic affinities

“…However, the megafossils of Dipterocarpaceae that were reported in the Neogene sediments of India and Nepal (e.g. Awasthi and Prasad, 1990;Prasad, 1990Prasad, , 1994Prakash et al, 1994;Khan et al, 2011) are absent from the Paleogene of India but present in the Paleogene of South-East Asia (Bande and Prakash, 1986;Srivastava and Mehrotra, 2010;Shukla et al, 2013). The occurrence of Dipterocarpaceae from the middle Miocene of China raises the question of the route of exchange between Chinese and Indian palaeofloras.…”

Colour Cues for Leaf Food Selection by Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) with a New Suggestion for the Evolution of Trichromatic Colour Vision

“…When all characteristics are considered, there are few exclusively primate fruits [36]. In South-East Asia, Artocarpus (Moraceae), Nephelium (Sapindaceae) and Garcinia (Guttiferae) fruits are candidates, but the first two genera were present by the Palaeogene, the latter by the early Miocene [49,50], probably before any catarrhine group was common in the region [39].…”