Out of Africa: did African floral elements disperse into Asia Minor and Europe via the Gomphotherium land bridge?

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To assess whether plants migrated from Africa into western Eurasia via the famed Gomphotherium land bridge by identifying African floral elements in western Eurasia. To achieve this, key floras across the early to late Miocene in Anatolia, Greece and Central Europe will be investigated.

To reconstruct terrestrial environments (vegetation) in Anatolia, Greece and Central Europe that were inhabited by mammals of African origin. To achieve this, evidence from previously studied macrofloras (leaves, fruits, and seeds) will be combined with high taxonomic resolution palynological data obtained during this project.

To evaluate whether or not African mammals arriving in Anatolia and Europe during the Miocene occupied new habitats (regarding vegetation units). To achieve this, floras from well documented late Oligocene to middle Miocene sites in Africa north of the equator will be compared to the focal floras from Anatolia, Greece and Central Europe selected for this project.

Link to this project: http://www.fridgeirgrimsson.com/fwf-p29501-b25/

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2021



Grimsson F, Ulrich S, Coiro M, Graham SA, Jacobs BF, Currano ED et al. Hagenia from the early Miocene of Ethiopia: Evidence for possible niche evolution? Ecology and Evolution. 2021 Mai;11(10):5164-5186. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7408

2020


Currano ED, Jacobs BF, Bush RT, Novello A, Feseha M, Grimsson F et al. Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2020 Feb 1;539:109425. Epub 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109425

Ulrich S, Grímsson F. The single-grain method: adding TEM to the equation. Grana. 2020;59(1):44-57. Epub 2019 Jan 1. doi: 10.1080/00173134.2019.1666915

2019


Xafis A, Mayda S, Grimsson F, Nagel D, Kaya T, Halaçlar K. Fossil Giraffidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the early Turolian of Kavakdere (Central Anatolia, Turkey). Academie des Sciences. Comptes Rendus. Palevol. 2019 Sep;18(6):619-642. Epub 2019 Sep 25. doi: 10.1016/j.crpv.2019.04.010

Grimsson F, Graham SA, Coiro M, Jacobs BF, Xafis A, Neumann FH et al. Origin and divergence of Afro-Indian Picrodendraceae: linking pollen morphology, dispersal modes, fossil records, molecular dating and paleogeography. Grana. 2019 Jul 4;58(4):227-275. doi: 10.1080/00173134.2019.1594357

Xafis A, Tsoukala E, Solounias N, Mandic O, Harzhauser M, Grímsson F et al. Fossil Giraffidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Miocene of Thermopigi (Macedonia, Greece). Palaeontologia Electronica. 2019 Jan 1;22(3):22.3.67. doi: 10.26879/889

Grímsson F, van Valkenburg JLCH, Wieringa JJ, Xafis A, Jacobs BF, Zetter R. Pollen morphology of the African Sclerosperma (Arecaceae). Grana. 2019;58(2):99-113. Epub 2018 Nov 20. doi: 10.1080/00173134.2018.1519033

Grímsson F, Jacobs BF, Van Valkenburg JLCH, Wieringa JJ, Xafis A, Tabor N et al. Sclerosperma fossils from the late Oligocene of Chilga, north-western Ethiopia. Grana. 2019;58(2):81-98 . Epub 2018 Okt 25. doi: 10.1080/00173134.2018.1510977

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