Links for Palaeobotanists 1

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).

! iDigBio. The Integrated Digitized Biocollections, the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community. Go to:
! iDigBio Portal: iDigBio serves as the coordinating center for the national digitization effort; fosters partnerships and innovations; facilitates the determination and dissemination of digitization practices and workflows. Worth to check out: Digitization Resources.
! See especially: Search records.

! R. Berdan (2017), The Canadian Nature Photographer:
Focus Stacking comparing Photoshop, Helicon Focus and Zerene.
"... For stacking images once in a while, I think that Photoshop does a satisfactory job but lacks the ability to tweak the stacking process. Helicon was the easiest software to use, supports RAW files, offers features to optimize stacking and creates 3D files from the stacks. Zerene also created nice stacks and stereo images, though its lack of RAW file support and high price makes the other programs more attractive ...".

S.L. Wing et al. (1992): Mesozoic and early Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems. In PDF.
The link is to a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
! See especially page 329 (on PDF page 3): "Triassic Biotas"

Jonathan Adams, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN: An atlas of the ice age Earth. Ecosystems maps, based on compilations of the available information in the literature. Dates are given in radiocarbon years.
Snapshot provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Julia K. Johnson, Stephen J. Reynolds (Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University), Nicholas J. Olejniczak, and Jonathan A. Foley (Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Biosphere 3D. The Biosphere 3D site (mostly using maps from the "Atlas of the Biosphere") has links to QuickTime movies of maps of the Biosphere draped over digital topography in globes that you can spin and tilt. Globes may be rotated using the mouse, zoomed using the shift-key, and unzoomed using the crtl-key.
Website outdated. The link is to a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

J.M. Adams and H. Faure, Quaternary Environments Network (QEN): Global atlas of paleovegetation since the last glacial maximum. A set of preliminary, broad-scale ecosystem map reconstructions is presented for the world at the Last Glacial Maximum (18,000 years ago) and the early Holocene (8,000 years ago), the mid Holocene (5,000 years ago).
The link is to a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! W. Cao et al. (2017): Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology. In PDF, Biogeosciences, 14: 5425�5439. See also here, and especially
! there. (EarthByte, an internationally leading eGeoscience collaboration between several Australian Universities, international centres of excellence and industry partners.

Raino Lampinen, Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History CARTOGRAPHIC LINKS FOR BOTANISTS.
This expired link is now available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm:
Natural science in schools, Mission: Climate Earth. Teaching material, in PDF.

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm:
Natural science in schools, Diversity of Life. Teaching material, in PDF.

D.W. Taylor and H. Li (2018): Paleobotany: Did flowering plants exist in the Jurassic period? eLife, 7: e43421.
"... we infer that Nanjinganthus shows substantial similarity to predicted models of ancestral characters and Early Cretaceous angiosperms, so the evidence suggests that it is a Jurassic flowering plant. ..."