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Plant remains in the Chuckanut sedimentary rocks near the fossil trackways reflect the subtropical rainforest ecosystem that covered the coastal region of Washington.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

We were in the Mirador Basin, a subtropical rainforest of about 2,700 square miles in the heart of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

Several months after the blazes started, scorching subtropical rainforest in September, they have burned 16 million acres, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and killed at least 29 people.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2020

Messel’s sediments were laid down during the Eocene Epoch, about 47 million years ago, in what was then a crater lake surrounded by a subtropical rainforest.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2016