claim: “To revisit the ocean’s paleotemperatures now, we need to carefully quantify this re-equilibration, which has been overlooked for too long.
evidence: Temperature has been estimated ( to varying degrees of fidelity ) using leaf physiognomy for Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic leaf floras, principally using two main approaches : A univariate approach that is based on the observation that the proportion of woody dicot species with smooth ( i.e.