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@palaeonavix.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:03 AM

Cordaites, a conifer-like tree from the Permian

#gymnosperm #paleobotany #palaeobotany #permian #plant #plantevolution #oilpainting #paleo #palaeo

@palaeojules.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:41 PM

Just in time for #FossilsFriday but here are a few photos from my trip to the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster! I was mainly visiting for their Lepidodendron canopy specimen!!!
It's a wonderful museum!
#museum #paleontology #paleobotany #dinosaurs

A model of a lepidodendron tree with the fossil of the branch mounted into the wall.

A GIANT adorable looking ammonite model with a massive eye and short tentacles.

A close up of a Wielandiella model, with the cone and leaves visible.

Two sparrows sat in the mouth of a T. rex skull.

@aldpaleo.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:13 AM

For this #FossilFriday a section of the early #fern Diplolabis from the early Carboniferous showing beautifully preserved tissues 🌿⛏️ (proposed reconstruction from doi.org/10.1016/j.re...) #Paleobotany #botany

Section of a fossil fern axis with preserved tissues, showing the X shaped vascular tissues. The axis is a few in diameter. A reconstruction of the plant by Phillips and Galtier 2005 is shown in a corner

@alexisrastier.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:26 PM

And here is the Eddy Lab paleobotanical team (University of Liège - Belgium) at the EPPC MÜNSTER (Léa De Brito, Laura Pajot, Raphael Zambon, Eliott Capel and Alexis Rastier) #Paleobotany 🌿⚘️⚒️

@researchmatters-gl.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 6:46 AM

Palaeobotanists from Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University discovered a new species of ancient fungus, 𝑉𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑠.

To deep dive, tap researchmatters.in/news/new-spe...

#newspecies #biodiversity #fungus #paleobotany #fossil #scienceeducation #scicomm #Indianscience #sciencecommunication

@alexisrastier.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 5:30 AM

What an extraordinary journey to Münster (Germany) for the European Paleobotanical and Palynological Conference (EPPC) 🌿 I was honored to present my research at the Early Career Symposium on a new whole-plant reconstruction of a rhacophytalean fern from Bjørnøya.🇳🇴⚒️
#Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern #EPPC

@flynnpaleo.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 5:42 PM

Not often fossil plants get reconstructions but part of the new New Mexico Musuem of Natural History and Science exhibit on the early Paleocene San Juan Basin has reconstructed early Paleocene sycamore leaves based on specimens from my dissertation! #FossilFriday #Paleobotany

Reconstructions of early Paleocene scyamore leaves from northwest New Mexico showing a large terminal and two small lateral leaflets of the plant.

Reconstructed early Paleocene sycamore tree and early primate at the New Mexico Musuem of Nature and Science. Small brown mammal resting on a limb of a white and grey tree with silk leaves.

@botsocamerica.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 4:46 PM

Describing the cones & seeds of extinct #conifer species---using CT and 3D visualization---that co-existed with the dinosaurs 150 million years ago in what is today the state of Utah.

New #AJB research by @mariahmhowell.bsky.social et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#botany #paleobotany #fossils

Using an industrial-strength CT scanner, the authors of this study were able to look inside a new species of a 151-million-year-old conifer cone from Utah to see the three spirals of seeds preserved inside, without having to cut open the precious fossil.

@esconi.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

Fossil Friday #335: A Couple of Beautiful Rhacophyllum #fossils #paleontology #FossilFriday #MazonCreek #paleobotany #carboniferous #pennsylvanian

Long-time member Marty Houdek recently sent me a couple photos of Rhacophyllum from Mazon Creek. The…

https://esconi.org/2026/09/fossil-friday-335/

@aldpaleo.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 2:25 PM

The programme of the 12th European #Palaeobotany & #Palynology Congress is now online for participants.
🗣️🌿⛏️ Our symposium for early career researchers has ✨33 talks✨ and will run for 1.5 day! Thanks to everyone who submitted an abstract & to the panel members who will award the prizes.
#paleobotany