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Bookmark or Share- Living Fossils: Plants - Digital Atlas of Ancient LifeFrom lowly algae to the mighty sequoia, plants are at the heart of most of Earth’s ecosystems. U sing photosynthesis, they gather energy from sunlight and produce the oxygen essential for animals, fungi, plants themselves, and many microbes. They provide most of our food, shelter, and medicines.
- Fossils and Paleontology - U.S. National Park ServiceFossils provide information about plants, animals, and microorganisms that have lived on Earth throughout geologic time. What a fossil is can be highly variable. Fossils range from the bones of giant dinosaurs like Apatosaurus to the remains of microscopic organisms or grains of pollen. Fossils also include hefty chunks of petrified wood and ...
- Functional traits of fossil plants - McElwain - New PhytologistIn this paper, we review a rich resource of paleobotanical and plant trait literature and outline a methodology for bringing fossil and extinct plants ‘to life’ using a functional trait-based approach pioneered by contemporary plant trait ecologists.
- Plant - Evolution, Paleobotany, Photosynthesis | BritannicaFossil remains of vascular plants provide evidence for evolutionary changes in the structure of the plant body (sporophyte and gametophyte), in the variety of plant forms, in the complexity of the life history, in the tolerance for ecological conditions, and in systematic diversity.
- Paleobotany - WikipediaWidespread coal swamp deposits across North America and Europe during the Carboniferous Period contain a wealth of fossils containing arborescent lycopods up to 30 m tall, abundant seed plants, such as conifers and seed ferns, and countless smaller, herbaceous plants.
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