First evidence of a monodominant (Englerodendron, Amherstieae, Detarioideae, Leguminosae) tropical moist forest from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia

• Aaron D. Pan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron D. Pan, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Friðgeir Grímsson, Patrick S. Herendeen, Ellen D. Currano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aaron.pan@ttu.edu

  Affiliations Museum of Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3286-3105

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• Bonnie F. Jacobs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron D. Pan, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Friðgeir Grímsson, Patrick S. Herendeen, Ellen D. Currano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Rosemary T. Bush ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ RTB, ME and XMB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Manuel de la Estrella ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ RTB, ME and XMB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Departamento de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal, Celestino Mutis, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4484-3566

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• Friðgeir Grímsson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron D. Pan, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Friðgeir Grímsson, Patrick S. Herendeen, Ellen D. Currano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1874-6412

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• Patrick S. Herendeen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron D. Pan, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Friðgeir Grímsson, Patrick S. Herendeen, Ellen D. Currano

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Plant Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-8671

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• Xander M. van der Burgt ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ RTB, ME and XMB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Africa Team, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom

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• Ellen D. Currano

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron D. Pan, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Friðgeir Grímsson, Patrick S. Herendeen, Ellen D. Currano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

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