Directory of Paleobotany Resources

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Paleobotany is the branch of paleontology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments and the understanding of the evolution of plants. Paleobotany includes the study of terrestrial plant fossils, as well as the study of prehistoric marine photosynthetic algae or seaweeds.

Subcategories

• Archaeobotany
• Databases
• Evolution
• Extinction
• Organizations
• Paleobotanists
• Palynology
• Regional
• Taxa

Resources in This Category

• Did the Wood Roach or Prototermite Cause the Permian-Triassic Coal Hiatus?

  http://www.angelfire.com/nc/isoptera/roach.html
  A symbiosis of the wood roach with a cellulose digesting protozoa probably caused Permian aridity and rise of conifers, and created the early Triassic coal hiatus.

• Environmental Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History

  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/envarch/
  This discipline analyzes and interprets past human resources uses and human/environment interactions. It is made up of three subdisciplines - Zooarchaeology, Archaeobotany, and Archaeopedology.

• Global Vegetation History of the Last 150,000 Years

  http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc.html
  An atlas of changes in climate and vegetation over recent geological time (the Quaternary period).

• Grand Canyon: Paleobotanical Research on the Bright Angel Shale

  http://www2.bc.edu/~strother/gc.html
  Provides information on the Middle Cambrian deposits in these shales, siltstones and sandstones and the microfossils found there, with images of several cryptospores and spore clusters.

• Hans' Paleobotany Pages

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/home.html
  Website on fossil plants.

• Links for Palaeobotanists

  http://www.equisetites.de/palbot1.html
  An annotated collection of pointers to information on palaeobotany, with an Upper Triassic bias.

• Paleobotany

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobotany
  Information from Wikipedia on this branch of paleontology which deals with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts. It includes information on plant fossils and the groups of plants that have left fossilized remains.

• Paleobotany Type Catalog and Collection

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/collections/plant.html
  A searchable catalog containing information on type specimens of fossil plants, algae and fungi.

• PETRALGA (Permian & Triassic Algae) Project

  http://paleopolis.rediris.es/petralga/
  The Project was launched in order to build a solid database for the fossil Algae from the Permian and Triassic epochs. A main going-on sub-project deals with a catalogue for the Dasycladales.

• Plant Fossils of West Virginia

  http://www.geocraft.com/
  A resource for learning.

• Plants of Jurassic Park

  http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0803.htm
  Article by W. P. Armstrong about the plants that were alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

• Virtual Paleobotany Lab

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Dir.html
  An introductory look into the world of Paleobotany. Designed as a teaching tool for a class at UC Berkeley, but providing useful background information to anyone interested in this field.

• White Rose Palaeobiology Group

  http://www.palaeobiology.org.uk/
  Research projects, scientific publications, and opportunities at this collaborative initiative between the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in the United Kingdom.

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