KU Paleobotany

Sharing our new #OpenAccess paper in @IJPSJournal on some funkay fossil conifers from Mongolia🌲 @kunhm @FabianyHerrera Please enjoy a CT rendering of the hairy young seed of this conifer, complete with micropylar arms (bottom) for pollen capture doi.org/10.1086/714281

Huge congrats to @KeanaTang for being awarded a NSF GRFP!!! I was already proud, but damn 😭😭😭 @KU_EEB @kunhm

Sharing a new paper just out in #AJB on my work with @umich_paleobot on the evolutionary relationships of fossil palms doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… tldr: we CT scanned over 200 palm fruits to find that modern palm tribes were having a blast in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene🌴

#FossilFriday : Valentines Edition 💗💗💗Mitrospermum compressum 💗💗💗 Permineralized seed of the long extinct cordaites. Known for their heart shaped seeds

We're sending a #MuseumLoveLetter 💕out to all, inspired by our friends at the @SpencerMuseum! Thanks to our @KuPaleobot team for this lovely heart-shaped cross-section of the petiole from a Schopfiopteris repens or fern, from the #Triassic!

For National (day after😅) Fossil Day, why not take a brief virtual tour of the @KuPaleobot paleobotanical collections with our collections manager, Dr. Rudolph Serbet! #NationalFossilDay facebook.com/watch/?v=34176…