The turnover of continental planktonic diatoms near the middle/late Miocene boundary and their Cenozoic evolution.

Fossil evidence indicates that modern assemblages of temperate nonmarine planktonic diatoms began near the middle/late Miocene boundary when the genus Actinocyclus, an important constituent of lacustrine planktonic diatom assemblages during the early to middle Miocene, was replaced by genera of the...

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Main Authors: Tatsuya Hayashi, William N Krebs, Megumi Saito-Kato, Yoshihiro Tanimura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5988279?pdf=render