Palynological research • Evidence from the study of planktonic palynomorph assemblages from the Upper Paleozoic strata from the Paraná Basin (Brazil), indicative of impact of environmental conditions on the distribution of algal elements in palynological successions corresponding to the
late Paleozoic icehouse, is presented by Bender et al. (2025). • Wang, Sun & Shi (2025) study the composition of palynological assemblages from the
Roadian Lucaogou and Hongyanchi formation,
Capitanian Quanzijie Formation and
Wuchiapingian Wutonggou Formation (China), and interpret changes in composition of the studied assemblages through time as consistent with
extinction on the background level during the
Capitanian mass extinction event. • Nhamutole et al. (2025) study the composition of palynological assemblages from the Permian (Lopingian) strata of the Maniamba Basin (
Mozambique), reporting evidence of the presence of plants indicative of lowland fluvial setting. • Hotton et al. (2025) study the composition of the late Permian palynoflora from the
Spearfish Formation (
South Dakota, United States), providing evidence of similarities with the Lopingian palynofloras from Europe and evidence of spread of
xerophytic flora across low-latitude
Pangaea at that time. • Evidence from the study of palynological assemblages from the South Chinese Meishan section, indicative of presence of persistent gymnosperm-dominated vegetation during the Permian-Triassic transition, is presented by Schneebeli-Hermann & Galasso (2025). • Evidence from the study of palynofloral assemblages from the Germig Section (Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; Tibet, China), interpreted as indicative of a shift from floras dominated by seed ferns and conifers to floras dominated by cheirolepids during the Triassic-Jurassic transition, is presented by Li et al. (2025). • A study on palynofloral assemblages from the Lower Jurassic Rodiles Formation (Spain), providing evidence of presence of arid environment with
Cheirolepidiaceae-dominated forests before the
Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, shift to a more humid environment and a fern-dominated flora during this event and return of drier conditions and Cheirolepidiaceae forests after the event, is published by Fernández-Rial et al. (2025). • Description of the palynological assemblage from the Middle Jurassic Challacó Formation (Argentina), including a Mesozoic record of the otherwise Proterozoic to Paleozoic taxon
Gloeocapsomorpha, is presented by Olivera et al. (2025). • Zhang et al. (2025) study the composition of the
Valanginian palynoflora from the
Sao Khua Formation (
Thailand), providing evidence of presence of a flora dominated by
Cheirolepidiaceae growing in a humid subtropical climate with periodic arid seasons. • Tricolpate pollen, identified as pollen of flowering plants belonging to the eudicot clade, is described from the Barremian strata from nearshore marine sediments in the Lusitanian Basin (
Portugal) by Gravendyck et al. (2025). • A study on the composition of the gymnosperm-dominated palynoflora from the Lower Cretaceous strata from the
Koonwarra fossil bed (
Australia) is published by Vajda et al. (2025). • Evidence from the study of palynological assemblages from the Barremian–Aptian Gippsland Basin and the Albian Otway Basin (Victoria, Australia), indicative of a high-rainfall regime of a floral turnover in the studied resulting in different composition of the assemblages from the studied basins, is presented by Korasidis & Wagstaff (2025). • Hofmann et al. (2025) describe twelve species of the pollen taxon
Eucommiidtes from the Lower Cretaceous Rio da Batateira and
Crato formations (Araripe Basin, Brazil), providing evidence of greater diversity and abundance of members of
Erdtmanithecales in the plant assemblages known from the studied formations than indicated by known macrofossils. • Araucariacean pollen assigned to five distinct morphological groups, providing evidence of diversity of gymnosperms in the Early Cretaceous vegetation, is described from the Rio da Batateira and Crato formations by Hofmann et al. (2025). • A study on palynological samples from the lower member of the
Aptian-
Albian Río Tarde Formation (Argentina), providing evidence of presence of fern, gymnosperms and freshwater algae and evidence of warm and humid climate, is published by Matamala et al. (2025). • Lin et al. (2025) reconstruct the vegetation and environmental conditions during the early evolution of the Songliao Basin on the basis of pollen and spores from core samples near the base of the Aptian Shahezi Formation (China). • A new Albian palynoflora dominated by gymnospermous pollen is described from the Binggou Formation (Liaoning, China) by Tan et al. (2025). • A study on palynofloral assemblages from the Las Loras UNESCO Global Geopark (Spain), providing evidence of gradual shift from conifer-dominated floras to ones with increased presence of flowering plants through the Albian–Cenomanian, is published by Rodríguez-Barreiro et al. (2025). • Evidence from the study of
palynomorph and palynofacies from the
Bahariya Formation (
Egypt), interpreted as indicative of warm and humid climate during the early-middle Cenomanian with a short episode of semi-arid to arid conditions during the late early Cenomanian, is presented by Abdelhalim et al. (2025). • A study on the composition of the gymnosperm-dominated
Campanian palynological assemblages from the La Anita and
Cerro Fortaleza formations (Argentina) is published by Santamarina et al. (2025). • Evidence from the study of palynoflora from Deccan Intertrappean Beds in the southeastern part of the Deccan Volcanic Province (India), interpreted as indicating that the onset of Deccan volcanism was favourable for the proliferation of ecosystems dominated by flowering plants, is presented by Samant et al. (2025). • Vieira & Jolley (2025) describe
Classopollis pollen (produced by members of the family
Cheirolepidiaceae) from the Paleocene sedimentary rocks of the Antrim Lava Group (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom), and interpret the studied pollen as reworked from Cretaceous strata. • Evidence from the study of palynological assemblages from the Llanos basin (
Colombia), indicative of impact of environmental changes on the diversification of Neotropical plants during the Cenozoic, is presented by de la Parra & Benson (2025). • Rull (2025) revises purported fossil pollen records of
Pelliciera found outside the Neotropics, and argues that only a subset of Cenozoic pollen records from tropical West Africa can be confirmed as likely fossils of members of
Pelliciera. • Evidence from the study of the fossil record of pollen from the Bighorn Basin (
Wyoming, United States) and from pollination mode of extant plants related to the fossil taxa, interpreted as indicating that animal pollination became more common during the
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, is presented by Korasidis et al. (2025). • A study on the fossil pollen from the Sonari Lignite Mine (Rajasthan, India), providing evidence of changes of composition of the plant assemblage from the studied area during the Paleocene-Eocene transition, is published by Parmar, Singh & Prasad (2025). • Revision of the fossil pollen of members of Fabales, Rosales, Fagales, Malpighiales, Myrtales, Sapindales, Malvales, Santalales and Caryophyllales from the palynological assemblage from the Eocene
Messel Formation (
Germany) is published by Bouchal et al. (2025). • Evidence from the study of fossil pollen from the Dingqinghu Formation (China), indicative of presence of a mixed deciduous and coniferous forest in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Oligocene-Miocene transition, is presented by Xie et al. (2025). • Malaikanok et al. (2025) study the fossil pollen of members of
Ericales from the Oligocene-Miocene strata from the Ban Pa Kha Subbasin of the Li Basin (
Thailand), identifying 24 different pollen types, and interpret the studied pollen as possible fossil record of different vertical vegetation belts in the mountainous areas. • Macphail, Westermann & Hill (2025) study the composition of the plant assemblage from the Miocene strata from the Bulga Plateau (
New South Wales,
Australia) as indicated by the fossil record of pollen and spores, finding no evidence of a significant floristic interchange with Southeast Asia during the early stages of the
Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in the studied area. • A study on the morphology and diversity of pollen grains of cacti from the Miocene strata of the Tehuacán Formation in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley (
Mexico) is published by Ramírez-Arriaga et al. (2025). • A new palynological assemblage, providing evidence of presence of forest swamp vegetation, is described from the Pliocene strata from Moormerland (
Lower Saxony,
Germany) by Stojakowits, Rösch & Röhm (2025). • Evidence from the study of pollen record from the Zoige Basin, indicative of changes of vegetation in the Tibetan Plateau related to temperature changes during the last 3.5 million years, is presented by Zhao et al. (2025). • A study on pollen of modern plants from the eastern Tibetan Plateau, providing evidence that pollen assemblages can provide basis for reconstructions of past vegetation and climate, is published by Cao et al. (2025). • A study on the environment and climate in
Java (
Indonesia) during the early Pleistocene, based on data from palynological assemblages from the Kalibiuk and Kaliglagah formations, is published by Morley & Morley (2025), who interpret the studied assemblages as indicative of a strongly seasonal climate, and interpret the assemblages from the Kalibuik Formation and the basal Kaliglagah Formation as indicative of presence of a large
delta dominated by mangroves, while considering the assemblages from the upper Kaliglagah Formation to be consistent with the presence of a freshwater swamp. • Evidence from the study of pollen record from the eastern
Mainland Southeast Asia, indicative of presence of forest-seasonal savanna mosaics in the studied region during the
Last Glacial Maximum, is presented by Lin et al. (2025), who find no evidence of presence of savanna corridors linking the
Leizhou Peninsula and Singapore during the Last Glacial Maximum. • Rull (2025) argues for caution in the use of the fossil pollen record and comparisons with modern analogues of fossil pollen taxa for reconstructions of past environments, as such reconstructions are based on the assumption of niche conservatism which might be unwarranted. ==General research==