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Plant Fossils of West Virginia ...Annotated links to internet resources, especially for palaeobotanists.
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/palbot1.html
This discipline analyzes and interprets past human resources uses and human/environment interactions. It is made up of three subdisciplines - Zooarchaeology, Archaeobotany, and Archaeopedology.
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Environmental Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History Zooarchaeology is the study of animal remains, both vertebrate and invertebrate, from archaeological contexts. These studies provide a better understanding of past lifeways, human diets, changed landscapes, management of animals, impact of human exploitation on...An introductory look into the world of Paleobotany. Designed as a teaching tool for a class at UC Berkeley, but providing useful background information to anyone interested in this field.
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VPL: Directory Page What are the synapomorphies for land plants? What does it take? Secondarily reduced? How is it like a moss? A grade? What does it mean? A grade? Heterospory and the origin of seeds? Why sisters?...An atlas of changes in climate and vegetation over recent geological time (the Quaternary period).
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Global land environments during the last 130,000 years An updated version of this site (September 2002) with more maps and diagrams is now available at: http members.cox.net/quaternary/ Visit my Memories of Tennessee photo gallery Global land environments since the last interglacial For a...Alphabetical list of links pertaining to Paleobotany.
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Helsinki mirror site of the Internet Directory for Botany Alphabetical List have been closed. The main page of the Internet Directory for Botany in Canada is still accessible....Describes a paleobotanical/paleoecological study of fossil forest site in the Canadian high arctic. Research information about the University of Pennsylvania research at the fossil forest site.
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UPenn SAS Department of Earth and Environmental Science-Eocene Fossil Forest Project This site is being overhauled to present our findings from the past three years of research Check back later for new info (7/22/02) We completed two field seasons at Napartulik on Axel Heiberg Island and...Website on fossil plants.
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Hans Paleobotany Pages This website is dedicated to fossil plants. The first indications for the existence of land plants date from 470 million years ago, from the Ordovician. The oldest with the naked eye visible fossils of land...An Index of Places of Palaeobotanical Research and Palaeobotanists Personal Pages.
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Places of Palaeobotanical Research 1 Search this site powered by FreeFind Places of Palaeobotanical Research If you know of other palaeobotany groups that should be listed here, please send e-mail to k-p.kelber@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de Table of Contents International Palaeobotanical and Palaeontological Institutions...Information from the Paleobotanic Research Group at the University of Munster.
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The Earliest Land Plants The earliest vascular land plants appeared about 425 million years ago in the late Early Silurian. This form, Cooksonia, consisted of small naked, dichotomously bifurcting axes bearing terminal sporangia. These plants were only a few...A searchable catalog containing information on type specimens of fossil plants, algae and fungi.
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UCMP Paleobotany Type Catalog and Collection Info The paleobotany type collection contains specimens which were illustrated or referred to in a publication as representative of a particular form the author(s) studied. Primary types are the specimens chosen as nameholders when a species...A world-wide paleobotanical collection dating from the early 19th century.
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Yale Peabody Museum: The Collections: Paleobotany The collection is worldwide in scope, with approximately 75% of the collection from North America and the other 25% from the Arctic, Australia, Central American, Europe, Israel, Pakistan, Lebanon, South America and the West Indies....Information about the Miocene Clarkia flora of northern Idaho, USA, including taxonomy, fossil collection sites, research, and photographs of Tertiary fossils.
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Tertiary Research Center The first discovery of fossils in the Clarkia area was in 1972 during the construction of a snow mobile racetrack. The fossils, primarily plant remains, are preserved in the sediments of a Miocene Lake bed....Research projects, scientific publications, and opportunities at this collaborative initiative between the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in the United Kingdom.
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Paleobiology Research UK White Rose Palaeobiology Group Group is a collaborative initiative between the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in the United Kingdom. Number of visitors: Site design by Estona Online Services Ltd. Many circumstances nonetheless tend to prove that in ancient...The Project was launched in order to build a solid database for the fossil Algae from the Permian and Triassic epochs. A main going-on sub-project deals with a catalogue for the Dasycladales.
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The PETRALGA (PErmian and TRiassic ALGAe) Project Welcome to the home page for PETRALGA (PErmian TRiassic ALGAe This Project was initiated at the end of 1990 in order to provide useful paleontologic tools for both scientific institutions and industry. As the first...