Brazilian Paleofloras by Iannuzzi, Roberto; Rößler, Ronny; Kunzmann, Lutz;

Introduction: Historical overview of Palaeobotany in Brazil.- ECTION 1: PALEOZOIC.-1. First evidences of terrestrial plants in Brazil.-2. Plant diversification through the Middle Devonian in Brazil.- 3. Mississippian plants from the Parnaíba Basin.- 4. Origin and diversification of plants in Brazil during the Silurian-Mississippian interval: microfloral record.- 5. Pennsylvanian Ice Age Flora from the Paraná Basin.- 6. Diversity and growth forms of tree ferns in the Permian in Brazil.- 7. Growth architecture of calamitaleans of the Permian in Brazil.- 8. Arborescent gymnosperms of the Permian from the Parnaíba Basin.- 9. Petrified wood in the Permian of NE Brazil. Sedimentary environment and petrification pathways.- 10. Interactions among plants and other organisms in the Permian of the North East region of Brazil.- 11. Presence of callipterids in Parnaíba Basin and phytogeographic implications.- 12. Geoconservationof Permian Petrified Forests from the North East region of Brazil.- 13. Bryophytes from the Permian in Brazil.- 14. Permian lycophytes from the Paraná Basin.- 15. Diversity and stratigraphic distribution of sphenophytes in the Permian of the Paraná Basin.- 16. Ferns from the Permian of the Paraná Basin and their paleoecological interpretations.- 17. Record of glossopterid plants in the southern region of Brazil.- 18. Relictual elements and other rare taxa from the Glossopteris Flora in Brazil.- 19. Conifers and aliens forms in the Permian in Brazil.- 20. Wildfires in Permian strata in Brazil.- 21. Evidences of arthropod- plant interactions through the Permian in Brazil.- 22. Ice-hothouse transition and palynological evidences in Brazil.- SECTION 2: MESOZOIC.- 23. Petrified woods in the Triassic of the Southern region of Brazil.- 24. Corystospermales and aliens elements from the Paraná Basin.- 25. Conifers and othergymnosperms from the Paraná Basin in the Southern region.- 26. The Crato flora, a 110 Million years old window into the Cretaceous world of Brazil.- 27. The Crato lake deposits. Sediments to preserve an extraordinary fossil lagerstaette.- 28. Gnetophyte diversity in northern Gondwana.- 29. Conifers of the Early Cretaceous Crato flora with particular focus on whole-plant aspects.- 30. Angiosperms in the Early Cretaceous of northern Gondwana – a track record.- 31. Paleowildfires in the Araripe Basin: paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate implications.- 32. Ecosystem structure and trophic network in the late Early Cretaceous Crato biome.- 33. Insect-plant interactions in the Crato vegetation.- 34. Other Cretaceous floras of Brazil.- 35. Cretaceous microfloras of Brazil: paleoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic significance.- SECTION 3: CENOZOIC.- 36. Ancient tropical floras in South American lowland terrains at the beginning of Cenozoic.- 37. Going towards the modern Brazilian vegetation: Neogene floral records.- 38. Cenozoic palynological record in Brazil and paleoclimate significance.- 39. Reconstructing the Quaternary tropical floras from the palynological record in Brazil.- 40. Subtropical palynofloras: interpreting the climate changes during the Holocene in Brazil.- 41. Brazilian Quaternary floral record.