A beautiful section in a stem of the seed plant Calamopitys embergeri, from the early Carboniferous of France 🌿⛏️ The section shows the central vascular tissues (wood etc., V) and the cortex (C). See alt-text for more details. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamop... #FossilFriday #paleobotany

Here is our new paper: Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests. Peng J, Slater S. M, McLoughlin S, Rastier A, Vajda V: doi.org/10.1038/s445... #Paleobotany #lycopsids #Jurassic

Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests - npj Palaeoecosystems

npj Palaeoecosystems - Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests

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Another paper from our NASA-funded project on ferns has dropped! UWyoming MS student Fern (really!) Holian, developed a new schema for classifying fossil ferns, which are understudied. 🧪🌿☄️

Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America

Premise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the.....

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For #FossilFriday a video showing the use of photogrammetry for 3D reconstruction of fossiliferous outcrops. Here a Carboniferous rock with faint impressions of Calamites, an extinct relative of horsetails 🌿⛏️❄️💻 The objects are used to test for image distorsion. youtu.be/x91SQRGwK2k?... #paleobotany

Technique de photogrammétrie

YouTube video by CNRS en Occitanie Est

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Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Nathorst, Antevs, and Schweitzer, we are setting out to explore the Late Devonian strata of Bear Island. Our goal: to uncover its unique endemic fossil flora and fauna from over 360 million years ago. 🌿🦴 #Paleobotany #Devonian #Svalbard #Bjørnøya

For absolutely no specific reason, here's a photo of the Jurassic fossil #forest at Curio Bay, New Zealand, for this week's #FossilFriday 🌲⛏️🦕 (More about Curio Bay: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curio_Bay) #paleobotany

Et plusieurs conférences dont une conférence-démo sur les plantes fossiles animée par ma collègue Gaëlle et moi le 17 octobre "Du fossile au paysage : reconstruire les forêts passées pour comprendre l’évolution des écosystèmes" 🌿🌲⛏️ Lien: echappeesinattendues.cnrs.fr/event/du-fos...

🦕 🌿 Missed our Paleobotany Week? There's still more on @botany.one Getting to the Root of Roots 📖 botany.fyi/j7whbh #Palaeobotany #PlantScience

#AMAP_HDR_Defense -Save the date- "Pollination systems, floral scent specificity, and overall floral trait diversity in natural orchid communities in Cameroon", 20th July, 2026, by Lydie Messado at 2:00 (Cameroon) at Faculté des Sciences, Yaoundé (Cameroon) umontpellier-fr.zoom.us/j/95431517499

I'm happy to have been one of the consultants for #SurvivingEarth E5 "When the forests collapsed" 🌿⛏️ "Showing" plants only known from ~300 million year old fragmentary fossils while trying to stay as scientifically accurate as possible IS frustrating, but I think the result looks good #paleobotany

A little attempt at a Triassic landscape in gouache. The two main trees are Voltzia heterophylla (L) and V. walchaeformis. Still researching these so forgive any inaccuracies! #palaeoart #palaeobotany #paleobotany

After a great week at the 62 Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Xishuangbanna 🇨🇳, I'm spending the weekend at the world famous Botanical Garden (XTBG) 🤩 Watch this thread today & tomorrow for some cool tropical #plant photos! 🌿🌲🌸 1/n #botany

A great AMAP representation at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Xishuangbanna 🇨🇳 this week. 1/n: The workshop "Education and outreach initiatives for tropical biodiversity" co-organized by @arteanest.bsky.social 🌿🦋 🐒 #botany #ATBC2026 #conservation

🕸️ DARWIN REVIEW 🕸️ Robil & Scarpella show that vein patterns are more diverse than commonly thought, and identification of vein precursor cells is arbitrary and inconsistent across species, thus challenging current understanding of vein patterns 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

A sea of green. Equisetum fluviatile #botany #fern #Alps

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Shoot apical meristem and vascular development of a late Paleozoic spermatophyte (Order Medullosales) by Portailler & Luthardt. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qr8r #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Comparative rhizotaxy of fossil and living isoetalean rhizomorphs reveals development through rootlet intercalation within a triangular lattice by Wyman and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q76q @sandyheth.bsky.social #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Earliest Jurassic plant assemblages from Sweden reveal a low-diversity ginkgoalean and cheirolepid flora dominating the post-extinction landscape by Quiroz-Cabascango and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/g992x3 #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek A new plant species from the Abo Formation, early Permian (Leonardian) of New Mexico, colonizer of disturbed habitats with implications regarding rarity in the fossil record by DiMichele and co-authors #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q757 #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek Reappraisal of Pseudobornia ursina Nathorst: Implications for the evolution and systematics of Paleozoic sphenophytes by Rastier and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q76c @alexisrastier.bsky.social #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek We begin with the introduction to the Special Issue Milestones and trends: the role of the fossil record in reconstructing plant evolution by Mihai Tomescu and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q75x #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek Corsiniopsis kurtzii gen. et sp. nov., a new fertile marchantioid fossil from the Late Triassic of Argentina provides evidence of the evolutionary trends of fertile branches in the by Flores & Cariglino #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q75z #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Othniophyton elongatum (MacGinitie) gen. et comb. nov., an extinct angiosperm of possible caryophyllalean affinity from the Eocene of Colorado and Utah, USA by Manchester and co-authors. 👉 doi.org/nx37 @floridamuseum.bsky.social

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48 million years ago during the late early Eocene by Siver and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q752 #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany @iceageberto.bsky.social

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek How do the principal megabiases in the fossil record affect the discovery of past bryophyte diversity? by Blanco-Moreno @candelabm.bsky.social and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q754 #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

#AMAP_HDR_Defense -Tomorrow- "Fonctionnement des écosystèmes face au feu : biodiversité, dynamiques et vulnérabilité par une approche intégrée multi-échelle" by Bérangère Leys, 24th June, 2026, at 2:00, at Amphithéâtre Malassis, Agropolis International, Montpellier amap.cirad.fr/fr/edit-even...

📣 It's out ! ✨32✨ great #paleobotany papers in this special issue of @annbot.bsky.social on fossil #plants 🌿⛏️ edited by Mihai Tomescu, @sandyheth.bsky.social, Brian Atkinson & myself. Thank you to all the authors & all the reviewers for their contributions! 📄 academic.oup.com/aob/issue

Super excited to see Atlas of Botany in print!!! A pleasure to work with the wonderful team from DK and the @thebotanics.bsky.social I wrote the Ancient Biomes section covering some of my favourite stories about plant evolution from the last 500 million years! @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

And the paper is now available online (open access) 🌿⛏️🎉 A new anatomically preserved species of Keraphyton (Iridopteridales) from the Upper Devonian of Australia | Palaeontologia Electronica doi.org/10.26879/1640 #paleobotany

Devonian plant from Australia

A new anatomically preserved species of Keraphyton (Iridopteridales) from the Upper Devonian of Australia

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Anne-Laure D 🌿@aldpaleo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The paper is not online yet but it's too pretty not to show for this #FossilFriday: a new species of Keraphyton from the Late Devonian of Australia, part of the work of @toinechampreux.bsky.social. Keraphyton is an iridopteridale, an extinct group related to ferns & horsetails. #paleobotany 🌿⛏️

Nobody: what is a tree, anyway? Us:  authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... (Review out today, in which we ask whether xylem disconnection arising early in wood anatomy is convergent with disconnection seen across tall plants and whether tree evolution requires disconnection given periodic drought.)