Editing Nypa fruticans (section)

===Nypa in the Fossil Record:===
''Nypa fruticans'' is one of the few palm species which is
recognisable in the fossil record, with specimens considered
attributable to it dating back to the Paleocene and possibly earlier,
some 60 to 70 million years old. Fossil ''Nypa'' pollen has been
found throughout the world; from the London clays, the Bass Strait
sediments, the deserts of Asia minor and South America. One of the
reasons for the abundance of ''Nypa'' fossils could be explained by
the very nature of its habitat, where recurrent flood and sedimentation,
events which predispose the species to the formation of fossils, occur.
The extant distribution of the species is now confined to the hot
tropical regions. Through inference, it is suggested that where ''Nypa''
once occurred was also hot at the time that it occurred there,
presuming that its ecological requirements have not altered during the
last 60 million yeas. The association of a plant's climatic
requirements can offer circumstantial evidence for estimating the
climate at a particular place and time in geological history, through
the medium of fossils.