目次

Chapter1: The last three millions of unequal spring thaws.- Chapter2: Triumph and fall of the wet, warmer and never-more-diverse temperate forests (Oligocene-Pliocene).- Chapter3: Aridity, cooling, open vegetation and the evolution of plants and animals in the Cenozoic.- Chapter4: Visiting the "PETM" greenhouse: environments, plants and animals of the early Cenozoic.- Chapter5: When and why Nature gained Angiosperms.- Chapter6: Postcards from the Mesozoic: Forest landscapes with giant flowering trees, enigmatic seed ferns, and other naked-seed plants.- Chapter7: Dinosaurs, but not only: Vertebrate evolution in the Mesozoic.- Chapter8: How to Live with Dinosaurs: Ecosystems across the Mesozoic.- Chapter9: Early Mesozoic Nature in and around Tethys.- Chapter10: The End-Permian Mass Extinction: Nature's revolution.- Chapter11: Long-lasting morphologies despite evolution: Ferns (monilophytes) throughout the Phanerozoic.- Chapter12: The non-analog vegetation of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse–Hothouse and their  coal-forming forested environments.- Chapter13: The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic.- Chapter14: Diving with trilobites: Life in the Silurian-Devonian seas.- Chapter15: Back to the beginnings: The Silurian-Devonian as a time of major innovation in plants and their communities.