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 Palaeobotany, Palaeontology, Palaeoecology, Field Trip Guides ... Fossil and Recent Plant Taxa Sphenophyta, Cycads, Bennettitales, Coniferophyta ... Preservation & Taphonomy Plant Taphonomy, Cuticles, Amber, Log Jams ... Palaeobotanical Tools Preparation & Conservation, Drawing, Writing, Microscopy, TEM, Photography, Microtomography ... Institutions & Organisations Selected Bot. Gardens and Herbaria, Nat. Hist. Museums, Palaeobot. Collections, Internat. Palaeo Institutions ... Conferences & List Server Conferences, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups ...

Articles in Palaeobotany Plant Evolution, What is Palaeobotany? Jurassic Palaeobotany ... Plant Anatomy & Taxonomy Plant Classification, Chemotaxonomy, Phylogeography, Cladistic Methods ... Palynology Palynological Associations, Acritarchs, Dinoflagellates, Palynofacies ... Ecology & Palaeoenvironment Stress Conditions, Palaeoenvironment, Ecosystem Recovery, Palaeosoils, Plant Roots, Playa Lakes, Animal-Plant Interaction ... Charcoal & Coal Petrology Fossil charcoal, Fire Ecology, Coal Petrology, Coalification ... Palaeoclimate Stomatal Density, Rise of Oxygen, Pre-Neogene Growth Rings ... Evolution & Extinction Evolution Sciences vs Creationism, Insect Evo, P-Tr Extinction ... Selected Geology Geological Timescale, Palaeogeography, Sedimentology, Gaia Hypothesis ...

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A. Miebach (2021): Pollen reveals the plant world of the past. In PDF, Pages horizons, 1. Easy to understand information.
See also here.

Robert A. Gastaldo et al. (2005): Taphonomic Trends of Macrofloral Assemblages Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa. PDF file, Palaios. See also here ("Tales of Extinction and Recovery", Smithsonian).
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O. Pourret et al. (2020): International disparities in open access practices of the Earth Sciences community. Preprint.

R Neregato et al. (2015): New petrified calamitaleans from the Permian of the Parnaíba Basin, central-north Brazil. Part I. In PDF, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 215: 23-45. See also here.
Note fig. 3 (on PDF page 15): The proposed reconstruction of Arthropitys isoramis sp. nov., drawn by F. Spindler, Freiberg).

K. Jewula (2019): The late Triassic development of playa, gilgai floodplain, and fluvial environments from Upper Silesia, southern Poland. Abstract, Sedimentary Geology, 379:25-45. See also here (in PDF).

X. Wang et al. (2009): The discovery of whole-plant fossil cycad from the Upper Triassic in western Liaoning and its significance. Chinese Science Bulletin, 54: 3116–3119.
See also here. (in PDF).
Also worth checking out: Discovery of an Entire Fossil Cycad from the Late Triassic of China (by Bill Parker, September 07, 2009).

! W.A. DiMichele et al. (2021): PLANT-FOSSIL TAPHONOMY, LATE PENNSYLVANIAN KINNEY QUARRY, NEW MEXICO, USA. PDF file, in: Lucas, S. G., DiMichele, W. A. and Allen, B. D., (eds.); Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 84.

! S.G. Driese et al. (1997): Morphology and taphonomy of root and stump casts of the earliest trees (Middle to Late Devonian), Pennsylvania and New York, U.S.A. In PDF, PALAIOS, 12: 524–537. See also here.

O. Katz (2020): Silicon and Plant–Animal Interactions: Towards an Evolutionary Framework. Open access, Plants, 9. See also here (in PDF).

E.L. Gulbranson et al. (2020): When does large woody debris influence ancient rivers? Dendrochronology applications in the Permian and Triassic, Antarctica. Abstract, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 541. See also here (in PDF).

! B. Cascales-Miñana and C.J. Cleal (2013): The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events. Abstract. See also here (in PDF).

M. Ghavidel-Syooki (2017): Cryptospore and trilete spore assemblages from the Late Ordovician (Katian–Hirnantian) Ghelli Formation, Alborz Mountain Range, Northeastern Iran: Palaeophytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 244: 217–240. See also here (in PDF).

R. Rößler and R. Noll (2006): Sphenopsids of the Permian (I): The largest known anatomically preserved calamite, an exceptional find from the petrified forest of Chemnitz, Germany. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 140: 145–162. See also here (in PDF).

R. Rößler (2019): Zum Gedenken an Manfred Barthel (14. März 1934 – 6. Juni 2019). In German.

! A. Toumoulin et al. (2020): Reconstructing leaf area from fragments: testing three methods using a fossil paleogene species. Abstract, American Journal of Botany, 107: 1786–1797. See also here (in PDF).

R. Li et al. (2021): Litter decomposition was retarded by understory removal but was unaffected by thinning in a Chinese fir [Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook] plantation. Abstract, Applied Soil Ecology. See also here (in PDF).

C. Dong et al. (2018): Whole-Plant Reconstruction and Updated Phylogeny of Austrohamia acanthobractea (Cupressaceae) from the Middle Jurassic of Northeast China. In PDF, Int. J. Plant Sci., 179: 640–662. See also here.

E. Martinetto and L. Macaluso (2018): Quantitative Application of the Whole-Plant Concept to the Messinian–Piacenzian Flora of Italy. In PDF, Fossil Imprint.

R.M. Bateman and J. Hilton (2010): (175–176) Proposals to modify the provisions in the Code for naming fossil plants. In PDF, Taxon 59.

J. Wang et al. (2009): Paratingia wudensis sp. nov., a whole noeggerathialean plant preserved in an earliest Permian air fall tuff in Inner Mongolia, China. Free access, American Journal of Botany, 96: 1676–1689.
Note fig. 42: Reconstruction of the small noeggerathialean tuft tree that carries the leaves and strobilus of Paratingia wudensis.

R.M. Bateman and J. Hilton (2009): Palaeobotanical systematics for the phylogenetic age: applying organ-species, form-species and phylogenetic species concepts in a framework of reconstructed fossil and extant whole-plants. Taxon, 58: 1254-1280. See also here. (abstract) and there.

M.R. Carvalho et al. (2021): Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests. Abstract, Science,372: 63-68. See also:
Wie der Asteroid den Regenwald prägte. wissenschaft.de, in German.

M. Laaß et al. (2020): First evidence of arthropod herbivory in calamitalean stems from the Pennsylvanian of Germany. In PDF, Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 90. See also here.

! P.J. Rudall (2021): Evolution and patterning of the ovule in seed plants. Free access, Biological Reviews. See also here.

! G. Guignard (2019): Thirty-three years (1986–2019) of fossil plant cuticle studies using transmission electron microscopy: A review. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271. See also here (in PDF).

L.C.A. Martínez et al. (2020): Studies of the leaf cuticle fine structure of Zuberia papillata (Townrow) Artabe 1990 from Hoyada de Ischigualasto (Upper Triassic), San Juan Province, Argentina. Free access, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 281. See also here (in PDF).

! X.-D. Gou et al. (2021): Leaf phenology, paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental insights derived from an Agathoxylon stem from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, Northwest China. Open access, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 289.

M. Slodownik et al. (2021): Fossil seed fern Lepidopteris ottonis from Sweden records increasing CO₂ concentration during the end-Triassic extinction event. Open access, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 564. See also here (in PDF).

G. Li et al. (2021): Different triggers for the two pulses of mass extinction across the Permian and Triassic boundary. Open access, Scientific Reports, 11.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier’s premier platform):
! Navigate from the concept definition and subject overview website.
Compiled information topic-by-topic. These pages are auto-generated by ScienceDirect using heuristic and machine-learning approaches to extract relevant information. Superbly done!
See for instance: ! Equisetaceae.

A. Uchman et al. (2004): Oligocene trace fossils from temporary fluvial plain ponds: an example from the Freshwater Molasse of Switzerland. Open access, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 97: 133–148.

A. Menendez (2014): Developing Criteria for Identifying Fossil Raindrop Prints. In PDF.

M. Fichman (2013): Raindrop Imprints and Their Use in the Retrodeformation of Carboniferous Trace Fossils. In PDF, Master's Theses.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier’s premier platform):
! Navigate from the concept definition and subject overview website.
Compiled information topic-by-topic. These pages are auto-generated by ScienceDirect using heuristic and machine-learning approaches to extract relevant information. Superbly done!
See for instance: ! Paleobotany (in Agricultural and Biological Sciences).
! Paleobotany (in Earth and Planetary Sciences).

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Raindrop impressions.

J. Li et al. (2019): Mesozoic and Cenozoic palaeogeography, palaeoclimate and palaeoecology in the eastern Tethys. In PDF, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 515, 1–5.

S. McLoughlin and C. Pott (2019): Plant mobility in the Mesozoic: Disseminule dispersal strategies of Chinese and Australian Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous plants. Abstract, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 515: 47-69. See also here (in PDF).

T. Yang et al. (2011): A New Representative of Neocalamites Halle from the Upper Permian of Northeastern China (Jiefangcun Formation). In PDF, Paleontological Journal, 45: 335-346. See also here.

D. Uhl and A. Jasper (2021): Wildfire during deposition of the “Illinger Flözzone” (Heusweiler-Formation, “Stephanian B”, Kasimovian–Ghzelian) in the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany). Open access, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 101:9–18.

C.T. Gee et al. (2019): Silicified logs of Agathoxylon hoodii (Tidwell et Medlyn) comb. nov. from Rainbow Draw, near Dinosaur National Monument, Uintah County, Utah, USA, and their implications for araucariaceous conifer forests in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Open access, Geology of the Intermountain West, 6: 7–92. See also here.

Deutschlandfunk (a German broadcasting service):
Die Sintflut als Erlebnispark (by Gesine Dornblüth, January 22, 2020, in German).

K.M. Pryer et al. (2020): Using computer vision on herbarium specimen images to discriminate among closely related horsetails (Equisetum). Open access, Applications in Plant Sciences, 8: e11372. See also here (in PDF).

! G. Mangerud et al. (2021): Triassic palynoevents in the circum-Arctic region. Open access, Atlantic Geology, 57: 71–101.
See also here (in PDF).
"... a compilation of 78 last occurrences (LOs), first occurrences (FOs), and some abundance events that are anticipated to have correlation potential in the Arctic region. ..."

G.P. de Oliveira Martins et al. (2018): Are early plants significant as paleogeographic indicators of past coastlines? Insights from the taphonomy and sedimentology of a Devonian taphoflora of Paraná Basin, Brazil. In PDF, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 505: 234-242. See also here.

Anjum Farooqui, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India: Endemic Rainforest and its geological past in the Indian Peninsula. Powerpoint presentation.

K. Unger Baillie (March 12, 2021): ‘Pompeii of prehistoric plants’ unlocks evolutionary secret. Penn Today.

! T.N. Taylor and M. Krings (2005): Fossil microorganisms and land plants: associations and interactions. In PDF, Symbiosis, 40: 119-135.

D.L. Nickrent (2002): Parasitic plants of the world. In: J.A. Lopez-Saez, P. Catalan and L. Saez. Parasitic plants of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Mundi-Prensa, Madrid. pp. 7-27.

B.L. Teece et al. (2020): Mars Rover Techniques and Lower/Middle Cambrian Microbialites from South Australia: Construction, Biofacies, and Biogeochemistry. In PDF, Astrobiology, 20: See also here.

This index is compiled and maintained by Klaus-Peter Kelber, Würzburg, e-mail kp-kelber@t-online.de Last updated April 21, 2021

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