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The prefix palaeo- or paleo- means "ancient, old", [1] and is derived from the Greek adjective παλαιός, palaios. [2] Paleobotany includes the study of terrestrial plant fossils, as well as the study of prehistoric marine photoautotrophs, such as photosynthetic algae, seaweeds or kelp. A closely related field is palynology, which is the ...
Category. : Prehistoric plants. Prehistoric plants — taxa or groups of extinct prehistoric plants. Wherever possible, more specific subcategories of this category should be used. More general articles should be categorized under Category: Paleobotany.
The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...
Sauropodomorpha. Sauropodomorpha ( / ˌsɔːrəˌpɒdəˈmɔːrfə / [ 2] SOR-ə-POD-ə-MOR-fə; from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.
Paleoethnobotany. Flotation machine in use at Hallan Çemi, southeast Turkey, c. 1990. Note the two sieves catching charred seeds and charcoal, and the bags of archaeological sediment waiting for flotation. Paleoethnobotany (also spelled palaeoethnobotany), or archaeobotany, is the study of past human-plant interactions through the recovery and ...
Evolutionary history of plants. A late Silurian sporangium, artificially colored. Green: A spore tetrad. Blue: A spore bearing a trilete mark – the Y -shaped scar. The spores are about 30–35 μm across. The evolution of plants has resulted in a wide range of complexity, from the earliest algal mats of unicellular archaeplastids evolved ...
Prehistoric plants of North America (39 P) S. Prehistoric plants of South America (21 P) This page was last edited on 10 October 2022, at 22:34 (UTC). Text ...
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. Paleozoic plants (6 C, 2 P) Mesozoic plants (6 C, 12 P) Cenozoic plants (3 C, 6 P) Categories: Prehistoric plants. Prehistoric life by geological period.