An annotated collection of pointers
to information on palaeobotany
or to WWW resources which may be of use to palaeobotanists
(with an Upper Triassic bias).
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S, Murthy et al. (2025):
Palynofloral
and geochemical evidence for Permian-Triassic transition from Talcher Coalfield,
Son-Mahanadi Basin, India: Insights into age,
palaeovegetation, palaeoclimate and palaeowildfire Free access,
Geoscience Frontiers, 16.
"... the present study analysed the palynology, palynofacies, organic geochemistry (biomarkers),
stable isotopes, and charcoal within the subsurface Gondwana deposits of the Kamthi
Formation (late Permian-early Triassic) ..."
R. Neregato and R. Rohn (2025):
A
New Late Permian Sphenophyte Strobilus in the Paraná Basin, Brazil. In PDF.
See here
as well.
V.A. Korasidis and B.E. Wagstaff (2025):
Cool-temperate
riparian floras in the Early Cretaceous rift valley of Victoria, Australia. Open access,
Alcheringa. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2489614.
Note figure 14: Reconstruction of cool-temperate rainforest and fluvial environments in southeast Australian during the late Albian.
"... we studied 291 palynological samples from 48 sites in the Otway and
Gippsland basins. Podocarpaceae represent the major component of the open canopy forests ..."
S. Kock and M.K. Bamford (2025):
Fossil
wood from the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group of South Africa's Karoo Basin:
Implications for palaeoclimate. Free access,
Earth History and Biodiversity, 5.
"... Tree-growth rings act as high-resolution climate proxies because wood anatomy is directly related to water
uptake and tree growth. 190 silicified wood samples representing three taxa from the main Karoo Basin of South
Africa were analysed ..."
L. Liu et al. (2025):
Ordovician
marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations. In PDF,
Nature Plants, 11.
See likewise
here.
Note figure 4: Morphological and palaeoecological reconstructions of
Tarimochara miraclensis gen. et sp. nov.
C.A. Bueno-Cebollada et al. (2024):
A
new occurrence of the angiosperm genus Montsechia in upper Albian strata from the
Maestrazgo Basin (Utrillas Group, Eastern Iberia). In PDF,
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321. See also
here.
"... This research paper reports the youngest known occurrence of the genus Montsechia,
in upper Albian amberbearing strata from the Maestrazgo Basin (NE Spain)
[...] the studied remains were found as a minor
component of a supratidal coastal plant association largely dominated by conifers ..."
J.W. Schneider et al. (2024): Palökologie im Karbon und Perm des Thüringer-Wald-BeckensPDF file, in German. chapter 18, in: Die Rotliegend-Fauna des Thüringer Waldes. - pp. 199-256
Climatic Change
Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change
- its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these.
E.A. Wheeler and P. Baas (2019):
Wood
evolution: Baileyan trends and functional traits in the fossil record. In PDF,
IAWA journal.
See here
as well.
"... We revisited questions about changes in the incidences of functional wood anatomical
traits through geologic time
[...] We suggest that tropical conditions have accelerated xylem evolution towards
greater hydraulic efficiency (simple perforations), biological defense and hydraulic
repair (elaborate paratracheal parenchyma patterns) as evidenced by late Cretaceous
tropical latitude woods ..."
M. Barbacka et al. (2025):
Late
Jurassic plant fossils from Wólka Baltowska (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Free access,
Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 95.
See likewise
here.
Newsbreak:
Was
Ellie Sattler Based on a Real Paleobotanist?
(by Mitul Biswas, 2025).
About the perception of (fictional) paleobotanists in the public. See also:
Ellie Sattler
(Wikipedia).
Ehow.com:
Salary
of a Paleobotanist.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
N. Gary Lane, Falls of the Ohio State Park:
A
Career in Paleontology.
From The Paleontological Society brochure.
This expired link is now available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
The Paleontology Portal.
(produced by the University of California Museum of Paleontology,
the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology,
and the United States Geological Survey; funded by the National Science Foundation):
Careers,
and
PaleoPeople.
These expired links are now available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
!
J.W. Clark and P.C.J. Donoghue (2025):
Uncertainty
in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal
interpretation of their fossil record.
R. Soc. Open Sci., 12: 242158. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242158.
See likewise here.
"... We show that the disagreement between molecular and
palaeobotanical estimates is an artefact of interpretations of the fossil record
[...] Attention should be refocused on the history of stem-angiosperms in
which the body plan of this most successful lineage of land
plants was assembled ...
D. Quiroz-Cabascango et al. (2025):
Earliest
Jurassic plant assemblages from Sweden reveal a low-diversity ginkgoalean and
cheirolepid flora dominating the post-extinction landscape. Free access,
Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf143.
Note figure 9A: Centimetre-scale charcoalified wood fragments in feldspathic sandstone.
"The low-diversity post-extinction recovery forests of the earliest Jurassic were dominated
by ginkgoopsids, cheirolepid conifers and ferns, growing under seasonal mesothermal conditions.
Dispersed charcoal indicates wildfires were present in the landscape at this time ..."
H. Nguyen and V.K. Huong (2025):
Integrating
Plant Fossil Proxies and Biomarkers to Reconstruct Deep-Time Paleoclimate,
Paleoecology, and Evolutionary Dynamics. In PDF,
Scientific Research Journal of Biology and Life Science, 3.
"... This paper reviews and synthesizes evidence from plant fossil records—particularly
fossil leaves and resins— and their associated biomarkers, along with geological
and paleogeographic data, to reconstruct past climates and ecosystems ..."
B. Adroit et al. (2025): Editorial: Changes in plant–herbivore interactions across time scales: bridging paleoecology and contemporary ecology. In PDF, Front. Ecol. Evol. 12: 1539173. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1539173
S.D. Burgess and B.A. Black (2025):
The
Anatomy and Lethality of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province. Free access,
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 53: 567–945.
"... This review provides a summary of recent
advances and key questions regarding the Siberian Traps in an effort to
illuminate what combination of factors made the Siberian Traps a uniquely
deadly LIP ..."
!
R.A. Gastaldo et al. (2020):
The
Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic. PDF file,
in E. Martinetto, E. Tschopp, R.A. Gastaldo (eds.):
Nature Through Time: Virtual Field Trips Through the Nature of the Past,
pp. 317–43. Cham, Switz.: Springer.
See also
here.
S. Pla-Pueyo and E.H. Gierlowski-Kordesch (2025):
Wetlands
as environments of early human occupation: A new classification
for freshwater palaeowetlands. Open access,
The Depositional Record. DOI: 10.1002/dep2.327.
"... A new classification for inland freshwater palaeowetlands, with a focus on carbonate
wetlands, is proposed here, recognising key features that
an be preserved in the fossil record ..."
M.E. Olson (2012):
Linear
Trends in Botanical Systematics and the Major
Trends of Xylem Evolution. In PDF, The Botanical Review, 78: 154-183.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
See here
as well.
The Full Wiki Project (an independent publishing company based in Sydney, Australia):
Extinction
events: Reference.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
D.M. Njoroge et al. (2025):
The
effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world. In PDF,
Biological Reviews, 100: 158-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13134.
See likewise
here.
"... we investigated what drives the invertebrate effect on wood decomposition worldwide.
Globally, we found wood decomposition rates were on average approximately 40% higher when
invertebrates were present compared to when they were excluded. This effect was most pronounced
in the tropics, owing mainly to the activities of termites ..."
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E. Mujal et al. (2025):
Triassic
terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments. Free access,
Earth-Science Reviews, 264.
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Note figure 1: Palaeogeography of the Triassic of Pangaea and the Central European
Basin (CEB), and stratigraphy of the German Triassic.
"... A review of the fossil evidence permits the recognition of new patterns of diversity for various clades during the recovery period following the end-Permian mass extinction
[...] the CEB [Central European Basin] provides an excellent record for studying the
evolution of Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas along with environmental changes over much of that period ..."
V. Zimorski et al. (2019):
Energy
metabolism in anaerobic eukaryotes and Earth's late oxygenation. Free access,
Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 140: 279-294.
Note fig. 1: Summary of oxygen accumulation of earth history.
J. Wang et al. (2012):
Permian vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia
and its implications for landscape paleoecology
and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia. In PDF, PNAS. See also:
Ash-covered
forest is "Permian Pompeii"
(S. Perkins, Nature).
T.N. Taylor et al. (2011): The advantage of thin section preparations over acetate peels in the study of late Paleozoic fungi and other microorganisms. In PDF, Palaios, 26: 239–244. See also here (abstract).
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S. Magallón et al. (2025):
A
metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering
plant phylogenetic diversity. Free access,
New Phytologist, 207: 249-479.
Note figure 1: Molecular and fossil-based estimates of angiosperm age.
"... A large number of fossil-derived calibrations and a confidence
interval on angiosperm age have been combined in relaxed clock
analyses to provide a time-frame of angiosperm evolution. The
maximum age of the onset of diversification of angiosperms into
their living diversity has been calculated with high confidence to
lie in the Early Cretaceous ..."
Z. Wawrzyniak and P. Filipiak (2023):
Fossil
floral from the Upper Triassic Grabowa Formation (Upper Silesia, southern Poland)
Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 93: 165–193.
See likewise
here.
W.K. Cornwell et al. (2009):
Plant
traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?
PDF file, Global Change Biology, 15: 2431-2449.
See also
here.
Note figure 1: The five major fates for woody debris.
Table 2: Stem anatomy differences across woody and pseudo-woody plant clades.
G. Mussini and F.S. Dunn (2024):
Decline
and fall of the Ediacarans: late-Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the
modern biosphere. In PDF,
Biological Reviews, 99: 110–130. See here
as well.
"... The end-Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between
distinct configurations of Earth’s
biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota ..."
R.E. Leary (1975): Early Pennsylvanian paleogeography of an upland area, western Illinois, USA . In PDF, Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de Belgique, 84: 19-31.
K. Opitek et al. (2025):
Morphology
and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm
Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA. Open access, Lethaia, 57.
https://doi.org/10.18261/let.57.4.8.
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Note figure 7: Artists’ reconstructions of a Late Devonian estuary habitat showing
non-calcified algae encrusted by abundant microconchids.
J.D. White et al. (1996): Remote sensing of forest fire severity and vegetation recovery. In PDF, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 6: 125-136. See also here (abstract).
Andrew B. Heckert, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and
Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque:
The
Oldest Triassic Strata Exposed in the Petrified Forest
National Park, Arizona.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
L. Azevedo-Schmidt et al. (2025):
Advancing
terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration. Free access,
BioScience, 75: 15–29.
"... we compared two previous studies
[...] a path forward is outlined, focusing on education and
training, research infrastructure, and collaboration ..."
F.R. Badenes-Pérez (2025): Plant–Insect Interactions: Host Plant Resistance, Biological Control, and Pollination. Open access, Plants, 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14101488.
X. Delclòs et al. (2025): Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America's Gondwanan forests. Free access, Communications Earth & Environment, 6. See likewise here. (in PDF).
J. Lee (2025): Deep-Time Evolution of Tubers in Equisetum and the Broader Sphenophytes. Abstract, International Journal of Plant Sciences, 186.
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R.F. Sage (2020):
Global
change biology: a primer. Open access,
Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14893.
Note figure 1: A simple schematic illustrating how impacts of a
global change driver can cascade through ecosystems to erode
diversity and simplify ecosystems in terms of reduced species
richness, ecosystem structure, trophic complexity, and function.
"... This review identifies 10 anthropogenic global change drivers and discusses
how six of the drivers (atmospheric CO2 enrichment,
climate change, land transformation,
species exploitation, exotic species invasions, eutrophication) impact Earth's biodiversity ..."
M.S. Kent et al. (2025):
Simulated
charcoalification of Lycopodium spores: The usefulness of spore colour and
chemistry for understanding the fossil record. Free access,
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 343.
"... The fossil pollen and spore (sporomorph) record includes occurrences of darkened
grains typically attributed to thermal maturation from geological processes
[...] we propose another explanation: variation in sporomorph colour and
darkness may result from combustion in wildfires during large-scale ecological disturbances
prior to fossilisation. To test this hypothesis, we investigate how pyrolysis might
impact Lycopodium spore colour and darkness. ..."
M. Laaß et al. (2025):
Host-specific
leaf-mining behaviour of holometabolous insect larvae in the early Permian. Open access,
Scientific reports, 15. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-15413-x. See here
as well.
Note figure 5: Co-occurrence of endophytic oviposition and Asteronomus maeandriformis in
Autunia conferta.
"... We re-examined the controversial feeding trace of Asteronomus maeandriformis
[...] Our results unequivocally show that
endophytic feeding behaviour evolved in the holometabolan clade at least by the earliest Permian
and, therefore, more than 40 Ma earlier than hypothesised. The findings reveal complex organism
interactions in late Palaeozoic ecosystems ..."
See likewise (in German):
Fossilien
zeugen von ältester Insektenplage der Erdgeschichte
(by Claudia Krapp, scinexx.de, September 2025).
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