Further discovery of some Carboniferous plant fossils from Tanjung Mat Amin, Trengganu, Peninsular Malaysia by Ohana, T., Kimura, T., Khoo, T.

Petrology, geochemistry and geological significance of andesites of Jintan gold orefield in Eastern Tianshan, Xinjiang by Zhu, Y., Wang, T., Huang, C., Dai, T., Yang, L., Chong, K.Y., Du, G.

“…Based on comprehensive analysis, subduction of the Kangguer ocean is still underway in the East Tianshan mountain region at the time of Late Carboniferous.…”

Extant primitively segmented spiders have recently diversified from an ancient lineage by Xu, X., Liu, F., Cheng, R.C., Chen, J., Xu, X., Zhang, Z., Ono, H., Pham, D.S., Norma-Rashid, Y., Arnedo, M.A., Kuntner, M., Li, D.

“…As the fossil evidence supports a Carboniferous Euramerican origin of Mesothelae, our dating analyses postulate a long eastward over-land dispersal towards the Asian origin of Liphistiidae during the Palaeogene (39–58 Ma). …”