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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.

P. Wilf (2008): Fossil angiosperm leaves: paleobotany´s difficult children prove themselves. PDF file, Paleontological Society Papers, 14: 319-333.

J.B. Bennington et al. (2009): Critical issues of scale in paleoecology. PDF file, Palaios, 24: 1-4.

R. Toby Pennington et al. (2004): Introduction and synthesis: Plant phylogeny and the origin of major biomes. PDF file, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci., 359: 1455-1464. See also here.

Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals.

The Geological Survey of India.

! Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Lectures in Dendrochronology. Go to: History of Dendrochronology. PowerPoint presentation.

The Palaeobotanical Society, Lucknow, India. The object of the society is the promotion of palaeobotany and allied sciences. The Palaeobotanical Society is an affiliated society of the International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS) and the International Organization of Palaeobotany (IOP).

! Conrad C. Labandeira et al., Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History: Guide to Insect (and Other) Damage Types on Compressed Plant Fossils (PDF file). See also here.

Cynthia Looy, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: Looy lab, Resources.

Fredrick T. Addicott (1983): Abscission. Google books, limited preview.

G.E. Mustoe (2001): Washington´s Fossil Forests. Washington Geology, 29: 10-20. Further paleontological articles from Washington Geology Magazine here.

Georg Anton Volkmann (1720): Silesia subterranea. One of the earliest depictions of fossil plants. Google books. Also available as free PDF (55.5 MB!).
See also here (in German).

Annette Becker et al. (2002): Ancestry and diversity of BEL1-like homeobox genes revealed by gymnosperm (Gnetum gnemon) homologs. PDF file, Dev Genes Evol, 12: 452-457. See also here (in German).

MDR Sachsen (a TV station), Region Chemnitz: Riesenschachtelhalm ist Fossil des Jahres (video report, in German). See also here (abstract Rößler and Noll (2006), the largest known anatomically preserved Calamites trunk.

Martin Hottenrott (2008), Hessian Agency for the Environment and Geology, Wiesbaden, Germany: Geology and Paleobotany of the Tertiary in the Wetterau Depression (Hesse) including aspects of Roman and Medieval history. PDF file, Excursion No. B2, 12th International Palynological Congress IPC-XII 2008, Bonn, Germany.

Anja Fuchs, Landshut, Germany: About Ginkgo. PDF file, in German. See also here.

Thomas Junker (1996): Factors Shaping Ernst Mayr´s Concepts in the History of Biology. Journal of the History of Biology, 29: 29-77.

Hans Steur, Ellecom, The Netherlands: Hans´ Paleobotany Pages: Wood of the horsetail tree Calamites.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland OH. Go to: Paleobotany Collections.

R. Fuglewicz (1973): Megaspores of Polish Buntersandstein and their stratigraphic significance. PDF file, Acta palaeont pol, 18: 401-453.

Jeffrey M. Osborn: Palynology (PDF file).

Regine Claßen-Bockhoff (2001): Plant Morphology: The Historic Concepts of Wilhelm Troll, Walter Zimmermann and Agnes Arber. Free PDF file, Annals of Botany, 88: 1153-1172.

Patricia E. Ryberg et al. (2008): Development and ecological implications of dormant buds in the high-Paleolaltitude Triassic sphenophyte Spaciinodum (Equisetaceae). PDF file, Am. J. Bot., 95: 1443-1453. See also here.

! The Cycad Society: Glossary of Cycad Terms. Consisting of two parts: Illustrated Glossary of Cycad Terms, and Expanded Glossary of Cycad Terms (PDF file).

Brian Fisher Johnson, EARTH, (2009): Deciphering mass extinctions. "What the planet´s past mass extinctions tell us about the future of life on Earth".

The Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP): Palynological Personalities. An in-depth look at some of the people who have influenced palynology.

EurekAlert: Want to petrify wood without waiting a few million years? Try this. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists can mineralize wood in record time. Wood that was artificially petrified in days.

AG EvoBio, Germany. Evolution in Biology, Culture and Society (in German).

The New York Times (registration procedure might be required):
Teacher With Bible Divides Ohio Town (by I. Urbina, January 19, 2010).

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Rhynie chert.

Mukund Sharma (2002): Palaeontology in India at crossroads. PDF file, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 83.
H.M. Kapoor and H.K. Maheshwari (2002): Palaeontology in India at cross roads: a comment. PDF file, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 83.

! The International Organisation of Palaeobotany (IOP): Newsletter Archive. The IOP Newsletter is the chief information dissemination vehicle for the membership of the IOP.

C. Martín-Closas (2003): The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: a review. PDF file, Geologica Acta, 1: 315-338.

Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder, Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein-Westfalen, Krefeld: Das Erbe des Feuers: Was sagen schwarze Steine über die Umwelt der letzten 360 Millionen Jahre? PDF file, in German.

Else Marie Friis, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen and Peter R. Crane (2010): Diversity in obscurity: fossil flowers and the early history of angiosperms. PDF file, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 365: 369-382. Some of the specimens are charcoalified and have retained their original three-dimensional shape. See also here.

Peter R. Crane, Else Marie Friis, and William G. Chaloner (2010): Darwin and the Evolution of Flowers. PDF file, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 365: 347-350. See also here.

Palaeobotanical collection, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, at the Humboldt University Berlin. The palaeobotanical collections of Cotta, Knappe, Mahr, Rühle von Lilienstern, Schlotheim, Schönlein.

Barry A. Thomas (2009): Darwin and plant fossils. (PDF file). Scroll to page 24 (PDF page 26). The Linnean, 25.

E.E. Spamer and J.C. Lendemer (2000): Type specimens of fossil plants in the Paleobotany Collection, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Revisted catalogue (PDF file).

Géza Császár et al. (2009): A possible Late Miocene fossil forest PaleoPark in Hungary. PDF file, Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology, Brest, Book 2009/03, Chapter 11. Lignified tree trunks in situ, partially covered by a fine-grained pyritic sandstone crust.

H.J.B. Birks (2005): Fifty years of Quaternary pollen analysis in Fennoscandia 1954-2004 (PDF file). Grana, 44: 1-22. See also here.

Reinhard Weber, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México: Virutas Paleobotánicas (in Spain, English version under construction). Go to: Jura von Franken (in German).

A.C. Scott (2001): Federico Cesi and his field studies on the origin of fossils between 1610 and 1630. Endeavour, vol. 25. Description of fossil wood.

Michael Hesse et al. (2009): Pollen Terminology. An illustrated handbook. Abstract: "The term palynology was coined after a written discussion with Ernst ANTEVS and A. Orville DAHL in the Pollen Analysis Circular no. 8 by HYDE and WILLIAMS (1944)".

! T.N. Taylor et al. (2009): Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants (Google books, limited view).

! Links for Palaeobotanists: History of Palaeobotany, Renowned Palaeobotanists.

Ann Jelinek et al., Murrindindi Shire Council, Australia: Flora Fossil Site: YEA (PDF file). About Baragwanathia. See also here.

D. Edwards et al. (2002): Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants. Abstract, Nature, 374: 635-636.

Stan Balducci Fossil News: Mesozoic Plants.

Allen A. Debus, Fossil News: The Art of Paleocatastrophe. How paleoartists have portrayed catastrophic events in life´s past.

E.G. Ottone (2005): The history of palaeobotany in Argentina during the 19th century. Abstract, Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 241: 281-292.

Jim Konecny et al. Fossil News: The Mazon Creek Nodules. Concretions formed in 300 million-year-old Illinois coal swamps yield flawless plants and insects.

Franz Eugen Geinitz (1900), Leopoldina 36: Hanns Bruno Geinitz: ein Lebensbild aus dem 19. Jahrhundert (PDF file, in German). Go to page 59 (PDF page 2).

Marc Behrendt Fossil News: Fossil Preparation. Tips on making your finds look their best.

Keith Holmes, Geology Department of the University of New England, Armidale

Sophia Kossida, Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet: Molecular Phylogenetics.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Henry Witham. For the first time (also by W. Nicol) thin sections of fossil plants.

Bob Sheehy, Department of Biology, Radford University,Virginia: Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics and Genetics. A link directory.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Bernhard von Cotta. Author of "Die Dendrolithen in Beziehung auf ihren inneren Bau" (1832). On of the earliest attempts of permineralized fossil wood determination.

Paul Bertrand, Annales des Mines: François Cyrille Grand´Eury (1839-1917). In French.

Mark E. Siddall: Phylogenetics: just methods.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Hugo Wilhelm Conwentz (in German). A research pioneer in baltic amber. See also here.

E. Zodrow and M. Mastalerz (2009): A proposed origin for fossilized Pennsylvanian plant cuticles by pyrite oxidation (Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada). PDF file, Bulletin of Geosciences, 84: 227-240.
! See fig. 12: In situ Calamites pith casts, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Johann Georg Bornemann (in German). Bornemann was a pioneer in cuticular analysis.

Kipping-Fossils, Germany: Fossil Plants.

Norbert Hauschke: Die geologisch-paläontologischen Sammlungen der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (in German). Including plant fossils described by Johann Georg Bornemann, one of the pioneers in cuticular analysis.

! S.G. Álvarez et al. (2009): The value of leaf cuticle characteristics in the identification and classification of Iberian Mediterranean members of the genus Pinus. PDF file, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161: 436-448.

M.J. Wooller (2002): Fossil grass cuticles from lacustrine sediments: a review of methods applicable to the analysis of tropical African lake cores. PDF file, The Holocene.

M. Krings et al.(2002): Touch-sensitive glandular trichomes: a mode of defence against herbivorous arthropods in the Carboniferous. PDF file, Evolutionary Ecology Research, 4: 779-786.

! John Lindley and William Hutton (1837): The Fossil Flora of Great Britain; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains Found in this Country. Provided by Google books. See also here (Book review, Nature).

Thomas N. Taylor and Michael Krings (2005): Fossil microorganisms and land plants: Associations and interactions. PDF file, SYMBIOSIS, 40: 119-135.

B.J. Axsmith et al. (2000): NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE MESOZOIC SEED FERN ORDER CORYSTOSPERMALES BASED ON ATTACHED ORGANS FROM THE TRIASSIC OF ANTARCTICA. PDF file, American Journal of Botany, 87: 757-768.

W.A. DiMichele et al. (2005): THE PERMIAN PELTASPERM RADIATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. PDF file, p. 67-79, In: Lucas, S.G. and Zeigler, K.E., (eds.): The Nonmarine Permian, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 30.

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