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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Q. Fu et al. (2023):
Micro-CT
results exhibit ovules enclosed in the ovaries of Nanjinganthus. Open access,
Scientific Reports, 13.
Note figure 4: Micro-CT results exhibit ovules enclosed in the ovaries of Nanjinganthus.
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid: The Collection of Palaeobotany of the Museum.
Devens Gust, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe
(page hosted by ASU Photosynthesis Center,
Arizona State University,
Tempe):
Why
Study Photosynthesis?
Still available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
Z. Wawrzyniak and P. Filipiak (2023):
Fossil
floral assemblage from the Upper Triassic Grabowa Formation (Upper
Silesia, southern Poland). In PDF,
Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 93.
See also
here.
Myclass.Peelschools.org:
Plant´s
Tissue Systems.
Systems
in Plants.
Powerpoint presentations.
Available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
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M.J. Benton and B.C. Emerson (2007):
How
did life become so diverse? The dynamics of diversification according to the fossil record and
molecular phylogenetics. Open access, Palaeontology, 50: 23-40.
Note text figure 1: Patterns of diversification of: A, families of marine invertebrates;
B, species of vascular land plants; C, families of
non-marine tetrapods; and D, families of insects.
Robert A. Gastaldo, Department of Geology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine:
PLANTS
AS KEYS TO PAST CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
Still available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
D.A. Oliva et al. (2022):
First
record of plant macrofossil from the Boa Vista Formation, Takutu Basin, Roraima State, Brazil. In PDF,
Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 25: 303–321.
See also
here.
"... X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and Laser
induced-breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) analysis were performed ..."
T.E. Pedernera and M.A. Gomez (2021): Plant reproductive structures of the Agua de la Zorra and Los Rastros formations, Triassic, Argentina. In PDF, Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 24(4):336–344. See also here.
Cindy V.
Looy,
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.:
Ecological success of Early Triassic isoetaleans.
A reconstruction of Pleuromeia sternbergi from the Early Triassic.
Available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
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G. Jovanovski et al. (2023):
Chemistry
and geology of coal: nature, composition, coking,
gasification, liquefaction, production of chemicals, formation,
peatification, coalification, coal types, and ranks. In PDF,
ChemTexts, 9.
See also
here.
Note figure 6: An overview of the progression of plant and fungal tissues and
burned material from peat.
Table 4: US coal rank system showing the parameters used to define ranks.
J.N. Milligan et al. (2022):
Moderate
to elevated atmospheric CO2 during
the early Paleocene recorded by
Platanites leaves of the San Juan Basin,
New Mexico. In PDF,
Paleoceanography and
Paleoclimatology, 37, e2021PA004408.
See also
here.
Jody L. Haynes (c/o Palm and Cycad Societies of Florida):
Virtual Cycad Encyclopedia.
Information about cycad taxonomy, biology, evolution, horticulture, conservation, etc.
Still available from the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
Go to: "Jurassic Age" by Charles R. Knight.
George Langford, "georgesbasement":
Fossil
Flora and Fauna of the Pennsylvanian Period, Will County, Illinois.
Many fossil plant photographs, line drawings and reconstructions.
Links in the scientific names point to plates in Leo Lesquereux´s classic 1879 work,
Atlas to the Coal Flora of Pennsylvania and of the Carboniferous Formation throughout
the United States. See the
Index
to Fossil Flora, pp 1-85..
Collecting Fossil Plants and Animals
in the Pennsylvanian Deposits of the Will County, Illinois Coal Measures
The Field Notes of George Langford, Sr. in the Years 1937-1960.
Prepared and organized by George Langford, Jr., 1973.
See also
here.
These expired links is still available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
C. Strullu-Derrien et al. (2023):
The
Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) macroflora from the “Coteaux du Pont Barré”,
Beaulieu-sur- Layon (Maine-et-Loire), South of the Armorican Massif, France. Open access,
Botany Letters.
See also
here
(in PDF).
G. Del Fueyo et al. (2022): Sergio Archangelsky (1931-2022): biographical review and his contribution to the knowledge of the plant communities of the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Patagonia. PDF file, in Spanish. Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat., n.s., 24: 197-215.
South
Carolina Geological Survey.
Education and Outreach.
Downloadable Earth Science
Education presentations, posters, and handouts. Go to:
Geologic
Time and Earth’s Biological History. Powerpoint presentation. Also
available in PDF.
The Natural History Museum London:
Dino Directory.
Dinosaur information (including some palaeoflora reconstructions)
alphabetically, by time period (Upper Triassic to Upper Cretaceous), by
country, or by body shape. Go to:
Upper Triassic. See:
Plateosaurus.
Still available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
South
Carolina Geological Survey.
Education and Outreach.
Downloadable Earth Science
Education presentations, posters, and handouts. Go to:
Sedimentary
Rocks and the Rock Cycle. Powerpoint presentation. Also
available in PDF.
Museum of Natural History, University of Florence:
The Origin of Life.
Life through time, in a nutshell.
Available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station,
Fire Sciences Laboratory:
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).
FEIS provides up-to-date information about fire effects on plants and animals. The database contains synoptic descriptions,
taken from current English-language literature of almost 900 plant
species and about 100 animal species on the North American continent. The emphasis
of each synopsis is fire and how it affects each species.
Available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
Also
provided by Google books.
E.A. Kravets et al. (2023):
UV-B
Stress and Plant Sexual Reproduction. In PDF,
UV-B Radiation and Crop Growth, pp 293–317.
See also
here.
C. Román-Palacios et al. (2022):
The
origins of global biodiversity on land, sea and freshwater. In PDF,
Ecology letters, 25: 1376-1386.
See also
here.
"... Most plant and animal species are
terrestrial, although these habitats cover only ~28% of Earth's surface.
[...] Freshwater habitats have
relatively high richness and exceptional phylogenetic diversity given their tiny area
(2%). ..."
[...] most marine species
are descended from marine ancestors and most terrestrial species from freshwater
ancestors. ..."
Jay Longson et al. (2010): Adapting Traditional Macro and Micro Photography for Scientific Gigapixel Imaging. PDF file, Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science.
F. Löcse and R. Rößler (2022):
Paul
Geipel’s palaeobotanical collection – one of the largest and most important former private
collections of the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz. In PDF,
Geologica Saxonica, 68: 11–20.
See also
here.
"... Our study contributes to the history of European natural
science in the early 20th century by elucidating a Europe-wide network of local collectors like Zacharias, Güldner and Geipel and geologists/palaeobotanists,
such as Rudolph, Beck, Nötzold, Sterzel and Wehrli. ..."
!
B. Muddiman et al. (2020):
Paleontologic
Data Fossilized on IBM 8” Floppies.
Behind the scenes, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley.
!
Don't miss the video clips "Fossil Data Part 1 and 2".
All about carboniferous coal balls and an adventurous action in computer archaeology,
reconstructing data from more than 360 vintage 1970s 8-inch floppy disks.
Michael Knee, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science,
Ohio State University, Columbus:
General Plant Biology
Online Resources.
Lecture notes. Go to:
Woody
plants.
Available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
R. Buckley Trabuco Canyon, California:
Inducing
adventitious root growth in cycad leaves.
Reprinted with permission from The Cycad Newsletter, Issue 1, 1999.
Still available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
Marilyn Fox and Vicki Yarborough Fitzgerald: A Review of Vertebrate Fossil Support (and storage) Systems at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Powerpoint presentation.
Bulletin
of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which has been in publication since 1925,
is published twice a year, in April and October.
C. Cao et al. (2022):
Persistent
late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering. In PDF,
Nature Geoscience, 5: 832–838.
See also
here.
Note figure 2: Strontium and lithium isotope compositions in seawater reconstructed in
this study and compiled from the literature with chronology of
tectonic, climatic and biological events occurring during the Permian and Early Triassic.
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See especially figure 2c:
Major events during the Permian and the Early Triassic.
J.B. Thompson and S. Ramírez-Barahona (2023): No evidence for angiosperm mass extinction at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary. In PDF, bioRxiv.
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M.S. Smart et al. (2022):
Enhanced
terrestrial nutrient release during the Devonian emergence and expansion of forests: Evidence from
lacustrine phosphorus and geochemical records. Free access,
GSA Bulletin. Note also:
Können
Wurzeln töten?
By P. Heinemann, Frankfurter Allgemeine, March 07, 2023 (in German).
J. Konecny, S. Konecny and J. Null, Fossil News, Journal of Avocational Paleontology:
The
Mazon Creek Nodules.
Still available from the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
M. Barbacka et al. (2022):
Polish
Palaeobotany: 750 Million Years of Plant History as Revealed in a Century of Studies. Mesozoic
Macroflora. Open access,
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 91.
See also
here.
Note figure 4: A reconstruction of Patokaea silesiaca.
Figure 10. Leaves of selected Late Cretaceous plants from Poland.
J. Gravendyck et al. (2023): (142–148) Proposals to improve the definition, utility, and curation of (type) specimens of fossil algae, fungi, and plants. Open access, Taxon, 71: 705–706.
B.M. Gibson et al. (2023):
The
role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’. Free access,
Geobiology.
"... In this study, we perform decay experiments
[...] we demonstrate the first convincing
“death masks” produced under experimental laboratory conditions ..."
! J.P. Wilson et al. (2023): Physiological selectivity and plant-environment feedbacks during Middle and Late Pennsylvanian plant community transitions. Free access, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 535.
B.B. Blaimer et al. (2023):
Key
innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera. Free access,
Nature Communications, 14.
See also
here.
Note figure 1: Family-level phylogeny of Hymenoptera.
Figure 2: Timeline and evolution of parasitoidismin Hymenoptera.
X. Bao et al. (2023):
Quantifying
climate conditions for the formation of coals and evaporites. Free access,
National Science Review.
"... We show that coal records were associated with an average temperature of 25°C
and precipitation of 1300 mm yr-1 before 250 Ma. Afterwards, coal records appeared
with temperatures between 0°C and 21°C and precipitation of 900 mm yr-1
[...] Evaporite records were associated with average temperature of 27°C and precipitation
of 800 mm yr-1 ..."
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