Extinct Plants Paleoart

Welcome to all new followers! This is the official account of the Extinct Plants #paleoart database, a new resource built by paleobotanists on a voluntary basis to help combat plant awareness disparity and improve reconstructions of #plantfossils in paleoart

Rare Irish orchid discovered in Trinity College after lawn mowing is halted irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin…

Hunting the ‘Cure’ in @OBGHA with our Building Bridges project schools. #Chemistry meets #Botany (Daubeny would be delighted!)

Macroevolution and biogeography of Cycads Coiro et al. @Lepidodendron @allio_remi @nathan_mazet @isemevol 📖ow.ly/QR8l50OTMb0

How it started: How it's going: (bad dog...)

Biggest Ginkgo leaves I have ever seen! Nine-inch-wide (22.9 cm) lamina. These long shoot leaves were produced along a beefy sucker off a street tree in Ghent, Belgium. #mesozoic #fossil #paleobotany #ginkgo

Ever wondered how palynology varies in complex fluvial successions, revealing reservoir heterogeneity? I’ll be talking about this at Lille STRATI 2023 strati2023.sciencesconf.org

Another awesome open day at Fossil Grove! Thank you to everyone who came along & massive thanks to the fab volunteers that make it possible 🖤 as usual I was too busy talking to take photos, but here’s one from when I was hiding in the shade, ft. @agalmatolite in the distance!

12 million year old only-partially-infused-with-silica wood fibers of an extinct species of Metasequoia in Oregon. I can't emphasize how cool this was to see & touch. Turns out volcanic ash with a 3-foot-thick "cap topping" of basalt is a pretty good way to preserve wood.

Sadly this is the only photo I took, but here's Variegated Horsetail, Equisetum variegatum. Another of Upper Teesdale's special plants seen last weekend. Thank you @botanicalmartin for *pointing* this particular specimen out. #EquisetumsAreTheNewOrchids @botany_beck @wonky_eggs

Sketches of some of the larger Nilssonia leaves from the Jurassic, badly drawn hand for scale. Nilssoniales are a mysterious group of cycad-like plants but also some of the most common in the Mesozoic!

There's just something about the yuccas at White Sands. @NatlParkService

[#Palevol] #Amber and #plants from the Upper Cretaceous of La Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien (Charente-Maritime, Western France) ✒️ Jean-David MOREAU & Didier NÉRAUDEAU 🔗 doi.org/10.5852/cr-pal… #FossilFriday #Cretaceous #Cenomanian #paleobotanist #paleobotany #conifers

Meet Beesiiwo cooowuse, a new rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation

Seeing plants as never before #TansleyReview Borisjuk et al. 📖ow.ly/gcA750NBobn

I've made a wall chart of tree leaves free download or buy a print & check out my shop - 10% of profits to World Land Trust, planting trees protecting habitats microcosmic.shop @BSBIbotany @BBOWT @wildflower_hour @WoodlandTrust @IoloWilliams2

Flores-Barragan & al. 2023 | Avances en el conocimiento de la macroflora de la Formación Tuzancoa, Hidalgo, México, Pérmico inferior | Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 40(1): 1-15: dx.doi.org/10.22201/cgeo.… #Mexico #Permian #flora #Palaeobotany

🚨Exciting news from the world of paleobotany! Our new study published in @SciReports has uncovered evidence of similar behavior between Ipomoea plants and Eriophyidae mites during since Pliocene in India 🇮🇳 doi.org/10.1038/s41598…