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).

History of Palaeobotany Renowned Palaeobotanists, Progress in Palaeobotany ... Teaching Documents Lecture Notes, Palaeobotany, Field Trip Guides ... Fossil and Recent Plant Taxa Sphenophyta, Cycads, Bennettitales, Coniferophyta ... Preservation & Taphonomy Cuticles, Amber, Permineralized Plants, Biofilms ... Palaeobotanical Tools Preparation & Conservation, Drawing, Writing, Microscopy, Photography, X-ray and Tomography ... Institutions & Organisations Places of Palaeobotanical Research, Palaeobotanists Personal Pages, Palaeobotanical Collections, Museums ... Conferences & List Server Conferences, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups ...

Plant Anatomy & Taxonomy Plant Anatomy, Systematics, Cladistics ... Palynology Palynological Associations, Palynofacies ... Ecology & Palaeoenvironment A.-P. Interaction, Palaeosoils, Playa Lakes, Roots ... Charcoal & Coal Petrology Fossil charcoal, Coal Petrology, Wildfire ... Palaeoclimate Leaf Shape, Stomatal Density, Growth Rings ... Evolution & Extinction Insect Evolution, Mass Extinction, P-Tr Extinction ... Selected Geology Geological Timescale, Palaeogeogr., Sedimentol. ...

Software Palaeontological Software, Software of all topics ... All about Upper Triassic The Triassic World, Triassic Palaeobot., ... Literature Search Journals, Bibliographies, Abstracts, Books ... Databases and Glossaries Encyclopedias, Unit Converter, What´s New ... Images of Plant Fossils Fossil Plants, Reconstructions, Plant Photographs ... Job & Experience Labor Market, Grants, Field Camps, Internships ... Search S.-Engines, Palaeont., Palaeobotanical Dir. ...

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! PAGES (Past Global Changes). PAGES supports research aimed at understanding the Earth´s past environment in order to make predictions for the future. PAGES encourage international and interdisciplinary collaborations and seek to involve scientists from developing countries in the worldwide palaeo-community. See also here.

Offwell Woodland and Wildlife Trust, Honiton, Devon, UK: The Importance of Fungi. The fascinating world of fungi.

V.A. Krassilov and E.V. Karasev (2009): Paleofloristic evidence of climate change near and beyond the Permian-Triassic boundary. PDF file, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 284: 326-336.

V.A. Krassilov and E.V. Karasev (2008): First evidence of plant-arthropod interaction at the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Volga Basin, European Russia. PDF file, Alavesia, 2: 247-252.

V.A. Krassilov (2003): Terrestrial palaeoecology and global change. PDF file (35.6 MB), Russian Academic Monographs No. 1, 464 p., (Pensoft), Sophia.

V.A. Krassilov (1997): Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects. PDF file (159 MB!), 270 p., (Pensoft), Sophia.

(Anatoly Broushkin, Natalia Gordenko, Eugeny Karasev, Valentin Krassilov, Natalia Maslova, Aleksandra Sokolova, Maria Tekleva, Natalia Zavialova); Laboratory of Paleobotany, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

A.C. Scott et al. (1994): The fossil record of leaves with galls. PDF file, In: Michele A.J. Williams (ed.): Plant Galls.

(Michael Peters); Arbeitsgruppe Paläobotanik, Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde, Kulturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

C. Blaine Cecil (2001): The coalification phase of coal systems. Abstract.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Inkohlung (in German).
See also Coal, and
Maceral.

BBC News: Rare fossils in India threatened (by Salman Ravi, July 25, 2008).

The New York Times (registration procedure might be required):
Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets (by L. Kaufman, March 03, 2010).

Mccullyweb: Geological Survey Sites of the World. An annotated web directory, arranged alphabetically by country.

L. Watson Albany, Australia, and M. J. Dallwitz CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia (page hosted by DELTA): The Families of Flowering Plants. Descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 25th November 2009. The Intkey software is required.
Also worth to check out: Static information. Character list, implicit attributes, notes on the APG classification, etc.

Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia (SBP). See also here.

! M.J. Benton (2010): Studying Function and Behavior in the Fossil Record. PDF file, PLoS Biology, 8: 1-5.
See also here.

A.M.F. Tomescu and G.W. Rothwell (2006): Wetlands before tracheophytes: Thalloid terrestrial communities of the Early Silurian Passage Creek biota (Virginia). Wetlands Through Time (Google books).

L. Battison and M.D. Brasier (2009): Exceptional Preservation of Early Terrestrial Communities in Lacustrine Phosphate One Billion Years Ago. Abstract.

W.A.P. Wimbledon et al. (2000): Geosites, a IUGS initiative: science supported by conservation. PDF file, pp. 69-94. In: D. Barettino, W.A.P. Wimbledon and E. Gallego (eds.): Geological Heritage: its conservation and management. Madrid. Including a list of geosites in the UK (Appendix 1, PDF page 13).

A.A. Manten (1967): Lennart von Post and the foundation of modern palynology. PDF file, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 1: 11-22. An outline of fossil pollen grain research on page 15 (PDF page 5).

James B. Riding and Jane E. Kyffin-Hughes (2004): A review oft the laboratory preparation of palynomorphs with a description of an effective non-acid technique. PDF file, Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 7: 13-44.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Plant cuticle.

Timothy Heaton, University of South Dakota: Geoscience Departments WWW Directory, U.S. & Canada.

Sidney R. Ash (1974): UPPER TRIASSIC PLANTS OF CANON DEL COBRE NEW MEXICO. PDF file, New Mexico Geol. Soc. Guidebook, 25th Field Conf., Ghost Ranch (Central-Northern N.M.).

! Kevin Lindstrom, UBC Library, Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Professional Societies and Associations in Geology.

Examiner.com, National:
Atheists attack Darwinian evolution in new book (by James-Michael Smith, February 25, 2010).

N. MacLeod, PaleoNet: PaleoNet Jobs Page. This page contains current listings for professional positions in paleontological research, and/or teaching.

Jobbörse Absolventa (in German).

Lutz Reinhardt (2000): Dynamic stratigraphy and geochemistry of the Steinmergel-Keuper playa system: a record of Pangean megamonsoon cyclicity (Triassic, Middle Keuper, Southern Germany). Abstract, PDF file, Dissertation, University of Cologne, Germany.

Thomas Aigner (1973): Frühere Bergbauversuche im Stubensandstein des Schwäbischen Waldes. PDF file, in German.

Thorsten Vollmer (2005): Paleoclimatology of Upper Triassic Playa Cycles. New Insights Into an Orbital Controlled Monsoon System (Norian, German Basin).

Heike Kirsten (2009): Herkunft, Eigenschaften und Konservierungsmöglichkeiten von Lettenkeuper- und Schilfsandsteinen an Baudenkmalen in Thüringen (Occurrences, parameters and damage appearances of the Lower and Middle Keuper sandstones on historic buildings in Thuringia). PDF file, Dissertation, Weimar, Germany.

OpenThesis Miami Beach, FL: This is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents.

Opus Database, University of Stuttgart. A gateway to electronic thesis (in German). Go to: Opus Metasearch. Opus provides simultaneous searching across German University thesis servers.

Mike Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College Center, Avondale, Arizona: On-Line Biology Book. Introductory biology lecture notes. Go to: PLANTS AND THEIR STRUCTURE, and PLANTS AND THEIR STRUCTURE II.
See: Flower Structure, and Fertilization and Fruits.

M.J. Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College Center, Avondale, Arizona: On-Line Biology Book. Introductory biology lecture notes. Go to:
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: NONVASCULAR PLANTS AND NONSEED VASCULAR PLANTS, and
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: SEED PLANTS. See also:
PALEOBIOLOGY: THE LATE PALEOZOIC,
PALEOBIOLOGY: THE MESOZOIC, AGE OF CYCADS AND DINOSAURS.

Richard A. Muller, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley: A Brief Introduction to History of Climate.

! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC. NOAA Paleoclimatology. NOAA Paleoclimatology operate the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology which distributes data contributed by scientists around the world. Paleo data come from natural sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments, and extend the archive of climate back hundreds to millions of years. Go to:
Fossil and Surface Pollen Data. The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program distributes the product of various collaborative efforts to collect and organize pollen records from around the globe (pollen counts and related information). Data contributed since March 2005 are available from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database.

! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC. NOAA Paleoclimatology. NOAA Paleoclimatology operate the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology which distributes data contributed by scientists around the world. Paleo data come from natural sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments, and extend the archive of climate back hundreds to millions of years. Go to:
International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD). The IMPD is an archive of fire history data derived from natural proxies (including data from tree scars and charcoal in sediment records).

! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC. NOAA Paleoclimatology. NOAA Paleoclimatology operate the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology which distributes data contributed by scientists around the world. Paleo data come from natural sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments, and extend the archive of climate back hundreds to millions of years. Go to:
Tree Ring. The Data Bank includes raw ring width or wood density measurements, and site chronologies (growth indices for a site).

Steven J. Wolf, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Stanislaus: Flowering Plants. Lecture notes about plant taxonomy and systematics, history of plant taxonomy, identification keys used to identify plants, plant nomenclature, etc. Go to: History of Plant Taxonomy.

Biology Encyclopedia (by Advameg, Inc.): History of Taxonomy.

The Natural History Museum London: Nature online > The science of natural history > Taxonomy and systematics What´s in a name? A history of taxonomy by Sandra Knapp.
See also: Nature online > The science of natural history > Natural history biographies.

The Guardian, UK (Guardian Unlimited):
Did Texans walk with dinosaurs? The latest survey of creationist attitudes in Texas shows them strangely fossilised (by Andrew Brown, February 19, 2010).

! WorldCat (OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin OH USA). WorldCat is a global network of library content and services that uses the Web. See especially:
! WorldCat Identities. WorldCat Identities has a summary page for every name in WorldCat (currently some 30 million names). Excellent!

The Open Source Paleontologist (Blog): Statistics Software. An annotated link directory.

Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA: Databases and Software Lists. See also: Phylogenetics Software Resources.

Clay Helberg, Chicago: Statistics on the Web. A list of statistics resources discovered on the World Wide Web.

Michal Kowalewski, Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA: Quantitative Paleobiology. Lecture notes about analysis based on quantitative data either derived from the fossil record, or any numerical model designed to explore paleontological or geobiological issues.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado: Free Software. A link list.

T.N. Taylor and J.M. Osborn (1996): The importance of fungi in shaping the paleoecosystem. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

! Libri Fungorum (supported by CABI Bioscience, CBS and Landcare Research). This project is coordinated by the Index Fungorum Partnership with the aim of providing a digital archive for books, journals, thesauri, indexes and other publication important to systematic mycology (fungi and fungal analogues, including yeasts, lichens, myxomycetes, downy mildews, and all their allies). Navigate from here.

Times Online, UK (The best of The Times and The Sunday Times):
Why anti-evolution movie has missed the point of science (by Robert Asher, Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, February 17, 2010).

Alan Graham (1993): 3. History of the Vegetation: Cretaceous (Maastrichian) - Tertiary. PDF file, Vol. 1. Flora of North America north of Mexico. See also here.

Michael Zech (2006): The Use of Biomarker and Stable Isotope Analyses in Palaeopedology. Reconstruction of Middle and Late Quaternary Environmental and Climate History, with Examples from Mt. Kilimanjaro, NE Siberia and NE Argentina. PDF file, Dissertation, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Botanicus, The Missouri Botanical Garden Library: This is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature.

Der Humanistische Pressedienst (in German): Bundesverdienstkreuz für Kreationisten (by Andreas Dietz, February 08, 2010).
See also here (Neues Deutschland, February 16, in German).

Diana Lipscomb (1998), Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington D.C.: Basics of Cladistic Analysis (PDF file). This tutorial briefly reviews basic cladistic methods and the various options of character analysis and dealing with multiple trees. Each of these topics has worked examples.

E.O. Wiley, D. Siegel-Causey, D.R. Brooks and V.A. Funk (1991): The Compleat Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures. PDF file, University of Kansas Museum Of Natural History Special Publication 19.

Schoyer´s Books and Serendipity Books (Antiquarian Booksellers), Berkeley, CA: The Melvin E. Jahn Collection of Early Geoscience 1550-1850 (PDF file). With a special concentration on Paleontology, Conchology, Mineralogy, and Private Museums of Natural History.

Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB): Introductory Glossary of Cladistic Terms.

! The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Journey into the World of Phylogenetic Systematics. Introduction to cladistics, their methodology and implications and about the need for cladistics.

Karen Bacon, My Science Career (an initiative of Ireland´s national integrated awareness programme Discover Science and Engineering: Palaeobotany. Studying for a multidisciplinary PhD in palaeobotany.

Cartage.org (no information available who is behind this trade name): Themes. A structured link directory. Go to: What can fossils tell us? Information provided by: http://www.museum.vic.gov.au.
See also: Fossils And Fossilisation.

Ancient Rome Portal: Paleobotany. A link directory. Click "Webs"!

Google Web Directory: Science, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Paleobotany, and Palynology.

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, with funding from the National Science Foundation). The Paleontology Portal is a website providing a central, interactive entry point to North American paleontology resources on the Internet. Go to: Resources, and Fossil Gallery, Plants.

Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm: Databases.

Christopher J. Cleal et al. (2005): Illustrations and illustrators during the "Golden Age" of palaeobotany: 1800–1840. Abstract, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 241: 41-61.

Wikispecies: Pages in category "Paleobotanists".

Lenny Kouwenberg et al. (2005): Atmospheric CO₂ fluctuations during the last millennium reconstructed by stomatal frequency analysis of Tsuga heterophylla needles. PDF file, Geology, 33: 33-36.

Paolo De Luca, Dipartimento di Biologia vegetale and Orto Botanico, Universita di Napoli, Italia: A Historical Perspective on Cycads from Antiquity to the Present. The historical aspects of the acquisitions of cycad collections in botanical gardens are outlined, and a brief survey of the history of cycads in various cultures is given.

The Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main: Paläobotanik, Geschichte (in German). See also:
History of Botany at Senckenberg. PDF file, by S. Dressler and G.Zizka (2005).

Selena Y. Smith et al. (2009): Virtual taphonomy using synchrotron tomographic microscopy reveals cryptic features and internal structure of modern and fossil plants. Abstract and free PDF (4.5 MB), PNAS, 106: 12013-12018.

Chuck Griffith: A Dictionary of Botanical Epithets.

Ernst-Detlef Schulze et al. (2005): Plant Ecology, Chapter 4.1: Historic-Genetic Development of Phytocenoses and Their Dynamics. PDF file. See also here (book announcement).

Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: A history of evolutionary thought. Biographies of some of the key players in evolutionary thought over the last 300 years.

Francisco J. Ayala et al. (2000): Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms: Toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins. PNAS, 97: 6941-6944. Scroll to: "Trends and Patterns in Plant Evolution".

Lenny L.R. Kouwenberg et al. (2007): A new transfer technique to extract and process thin and fragmented fossil cuticle using polyester overlays. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 145: 243-248.
See also here (PDF file).

U.S. Geological Survey: USGS frequently asked questions, FAQ´s about Paleontology, and Biology. Other FAQ´s are available here.

John R. Anderson, Georgia Perimeter College Geology: The World of Geology, Prefix/Suffix Meanings.

Michigan Proficiency Exams: Need prefix suffix help? and The Suffix List.

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