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A History of Palaeozoic Forests, by Hans Kerp - http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/ewald.html
This web version contains the original illustrations as appeared in the printed version and many links directly related to the history of Palaeozoic forests.

Darwin and Modern Science: The Palaeontological Record: Plants - http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/modern-science/chapter12.html
Article by D. H. Scott, President of the Linnean Society, which discusses the fossil record of plants and its bearing on the truth of the doctrine of evolution, on phylogeny and on the theory of natural selection.

Did the Wood Roach or Prototermite Cause the Permian-Triassic Coal Hiatus? - http://www.angelfire.com/nc/isoptera/roach.html
A symbiosis of the wood roach with a cellulose digesting protozoa probably caused Permian aridity and rise of conifers, and created the early Triassic coal hiatus.

Environmental Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History - http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/envarch/default.htm
This discipline analyzes and interprets past human resources uses and human/environment interactions. It is made up of three subdisciplines - Zooarchaeology, Archaeobotany, and Archaeopedology.

Fossil Plants of Britain - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/fossils/fossil-plants/
A short video provided by the Natural History Museum which has a large collection of fossilized plant specimens.

Geobiology of Polar Latitude Eocene Forests - http://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/arctic/index.html
Describes a paleobotanical/paleoecological study of fossil forest site in the Canadian high arctic. Research information about the University of Pennsylvania research at the fossil forest site.

Global Vegetation History of the Last 150,000 Years - http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc.html
An atlas of changes in climate and vegetation over recent geological time (the Quaternary period).

Grand Canyon: Paleobotanical Research on the Bright Angel Shale - http://www2.bc.edu/~strother/gc.html
Provides information on the Middle Cambrian deposits in these shales, siltstones and sandstones and the microfossils found there, with images of several cryptospores and spore clusters.

Hans' Paleobotany Pages - http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/home.html
Website on fossil plants.

History of Palaeozoic Forests: Silurian Plant Fossils - http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/seite2.html
Provides links to a number of web sources providing information on plant fossils and images of meiospores and cryptospores.

History of Paleozoic Forests and the Earliest Land Plants - http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/seite3.html
Information from the Paleobotanic Research Group at the University of Munster.

Links for Palaeobotanists - http://www.equisetites.de/palbot1.html
An annotated collection of pointers to information on palaeobotany, with an Upper Triassic bias.

Paleobotany - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobotany
Information from Wikipedia on this branch of paleontology which deals with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts. It includes information on plant fossils and the groups of plants that have left fossilized remains.

Paleobotany Type Catalog and Collection - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/collections/plant.html
A searchable catalog containing information on type specimens of fossil plants, algae and fungi.

PETRALGA (Permian & Triassic Algae) Project - http://paleopolis.rediris.es/petralga/
The Project was launched in order to build a solid database for the fossil Algae from the Permian and Triassic epochs. A main going-on sub-project deals with a catalogue for the Dasycladales.

Places of Palaeobotanical Research - http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/search1.html
An Index of Places of Palaeobotanical Research and Palaeobotanists Personal Pages.

Plant Fossils as Climatic Indicators - http://www.open.ac.uk/earth-research/spicer/page1.html
Provides information on projects being undertaken by the Warm Earth Environmental Systems Research Group.

Plant Fossils of West Virginia - http://www.geocraft.com
A resource for learning.

Plants of Jurassic Park - http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0803.htm
Article by W. P. Armstrong about the plants that were alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Tertiary Research Center - http://www.mines.uidaho.edu/~tertiary/
Information about the Miocene Clarkia flora of northern Idaho, USA, including taxonomy, fossil collection sites, research, and photographs of Tertiary fossils.

Virtual Paleobotany Lab - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Dir.html
An introductory look into the world of Paleobotany. Designed as a teaching tool for a class at UC Berkeley, but providing useful background information to anyone interested in this field.

White Rose Palaeobiology Group - http://www.palaeobiology.org.uk/
Research projects, scientific publications, and opportunities at this collaborative initiative between the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Yale Peabody Museum: Paleobotany Collection - http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/pb/
A world-wide paleobotanical collection dating from the early 19th century.

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