It's nice when other researchers take your fossils as dating constraints for their chronograms and biogeographic inferences, especially when their "new" and "better" data confirms one's results. But should we really take a central European fossil as age prior for a clade that according to our biogeographic inference originated and never left Australasia? A comment to Liu et al. (2018). Historical...

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A short paper (for a change) documenting the first Loranthaceae pollen from Africa, showing a morphotype that falls in-line with our dating estimates. And highlights the enormous but largely unused potential of high-resolution SEM studies to mine the palaeopalynological record of the Southern Hemisphere.

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