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Palaeoclimate estimates derived from plant-based proxies are potentially subject to uncertainties arising from taphonomic filtering. In any given fossil assemblage it is possible to identify the kinds of likely taphonomic influences, but virtually impossible to quantify the uncertainties they introduce because filtering removes information. Because that information is missing it cannot be measured...