Convener: Guido Roghi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Co-Conveners: Evelyn Kustatscher, Marco Vecoli

There is an ongoing strong need to improve our knowledge on life as a measure of time. Comparing plant and animal distribution ranges and their rates of change through time increases our understanding of major extinction events, radiations and plant turnover from the Paleophytic to the Cenophytic. This session will provide an overview on the recent advances in pollen, spores and plant macrofossil biostratigraphy of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary successions. All contributions on micro- and macrobotanical zonations, supported by parallel and independent time diagnostic analyses (e.g., biochronology, astrochronology, cyclostratigraphy, marine biozonations, luminescence dating, tephrochronology, etc.), are especially welcome.