Fossil climbing perch and associated plant megafossils indicate a warm and wet central Tibet during the late Oligocene

Abstract Understanding the Tibetan Plateau’s palaeogeography and palaeoenvironment is critical for reconstructing Asia’s climatic history; however, aspects of the plateau’s uplift history remain unclear. Here, we report a fossil biota that sheds new light on these issues. It comprises a fossil climb...

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Main Authors: Feixiang Wu, Desui Miao, Mee-mann Chang, Gongle Shi, Ning Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00928-9