palaeobotany
/ˌpalɪəʊˈbɒtəni
/ /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˈbɒtəni/(US paleobotany)
noun [mass noun]
The study of fossil plants.The study of fossil plants, palaeobotany, it not only of interest in itself, but can be applied to solving a wide range of biological and geological problems....
- The study of paleobotany relies on this preserved material - fossils - as evidence of past life.
- By my senior year of high school in 1952, I was fascinated by paleobotany, from the ‘butterfly chasing’ of systematic work to work that intertwines with other geoscience endeavors.
Derivatives
palaeobotanical
- Recent Late Jurassic paleobotanical data suggest that the large conifers and ginkgoes that formed the bulk of the canopy were both relatively sparse and nutrient poor.
- Plant life followed a different route, and the paleobotanical time-eras of Palaeophytic, Mesophytic, and Cenophytic are only approximately equivalent.
- The early Carboniferous climate has been deduced from palaeobotanical data and from palaeosols/palaeokarsts.
palaeobotanist
- The shape, pore arrangement, morphology and ultrastructure of sporodermata and exines have proved informative to palaeobotanists and in systematics.
- There is some agreement that both living and extinct cycads were derived from seed ferns, but paleobotanists still debate exactly if, when, and how this happened.
- The order has attracted much attention from traditional botanists, palaeobotanists and molecular systematists, because of its potential significance for understanding the phylogeny of seed plants.