Foreword ....................................................... ix
Preface ...................................................... xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
Profile of Alan Graham ........................................ xix
Scientific Publications of Alan Graham ........................ xxv
1 Response of Plant Diversity to Miocene Forcing Events:
The Case of Patagonia ........................................ 1
Viviana D. Barreda and Luis Palazzesi
2 A New Leaf in the Genus Inga (Fabaceae) in Eocene
Sediments of the La Carroza Formation, La Popa, Nuevo
León, Mexico, with Comments on Its Biogeographic
Implications ................................................ 27
Laura Calvillo-Canadell, Sergio Rafael Silvestre Cevallos-
Ferriz, and Mario Sousa-Sánchez
3 Catahoulea grahamii, a New Genus and Species of Fagaceous
Involucres from the Oligocene Catahoula Formation, East
Texas, and the Middle Eocene Claiborne Formation of
Kentucky and Tennessee, U.S.A. .............................. 40
Melanie L. DeVore, Kathleen B. Pigg, David L. Dilcher,
and Deborah Freile
4 An Extinct Caesalpinoid Flower from the Eocene of Western
Tennessee ................................................... 51
David L. Dilcher, Terry A. Lott, Michael A. Gibson, and
Callie Dudley
5 The Vasa Park Flora, King County, Washington, U.S.A.:
A Window into the Late Miocene of the Pacific Northwest ..... 64
Richard M. Dillhoff, Thomas A. Dillhoff, Anthony R. Jijina,
and Caroline A.E. Strömberg
6 Connectivity Dynamics Since the Last Glacial Maximum in
the Northern Andes: A Pollen-driven Framework to Assess
Potential Migration ......................................... 98
Suzette G.A. Flantua, Henry Hooghiemstra, John H. Van
Boxel, Marian Cabrera, Zaire González-Carranza, and
Catalina González-Arango
7 Fruits of Oreomunnea (Juglandaceae) in the Early Miocene
of Panama .................................................. 124
Fabiany Herrera, Steven R. Manchester, Rebecca Koll, and
Carlos Jaramillo
8 Palynological Record of the Last 20 Million Years in
Panama ..................................................... 134
Carlos Jaramillo, Enrique Moreno, Valentina Ramírez,
Silane da Silva, Atria de la Barrera, Adara de la
Barrera, Carlos Sánchez, Sara Morón, Fabiany Herrera,
Jaime Escobar, Rebecca Koll, Steven R. Manchester, and
Natalia Hoyos
9 Biogeographic History of Abies bracteata (D. Don) Poit.
in the Western United States ............................... 252
Estella В. Leopold and Stephanie Zaborac-Reed
10 The Influence of Regional History and Ecological Affinity
in the Angiosperm Composition of Mexican Lowland Tropical
Rainforests ................................................ 287
Susana Magallón, R. Toby Pennington, José Luis
Villaseñor, Pilar Rodríguez, Euridice N. Honorio
Coronado, Robin Foster, David Harris, and Jan Wieringa
11 Fruits of Melia (Meliaceae, Melioideae) from the Middle
Miocene Yakima Canyon Flora of Central Washington State,
U.S.A. ..................................................... 326
Kathleen B. Pigg, Melanie L. DeVore, John C. Benedict,
and Richard M. Creekmore
12 Whence the Flora of Southern South America? Biases May
Distort Our Conclusions .................................... 338
Beryl B. Simpson
13 Paleobotany and Paleoecology of the Munce s Hill Fossil
Locality near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada .................... 367
Ruth A. Stockey, Georgia L. Hoffman, and Matthew J. Vavrek
14 Historical Biogeography of the Neotropical Legume Genus
Dussia: The Andes, the Panama Isthmus, and the Choco ....... 389
Cathy Winterton, James E. Richardson, Michelle
Hollingsworth, Alexandra Clark, Nelson Zamora, and
R. Toby Pennington
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