Evidence is weak for tropical rainforest 65 million years ago in Africa’s low-latitudes

EurekAlert: The landscape of Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but the jury is still out on whether the region's mammals browsed and hunted beneath the canopy of a lush rainforest. The scientific evidence for a tropical rainforest at that time is weak and far from convincing, says paleobotanist Bonnie F. Jacobs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Fossil pollen from Central and West Africa provide no definitive evidence for communities of ......

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