Web Links
18. Fossil plants
Find out more about basic botany at:
http://biology.jbpub.com/Botany
and read more at the Virtual Paleobotany Lab at:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Dir.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/home.html
Read about modern angiosperms and their evolution at:
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=angiosperms
and current information on the large-scale international efforts to produce a new phylogeny of angiosperms at:
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/welcome.html
Archaefructus, possibly the oldest angiosperm, is illustrated at:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/deeptime/virtualfossilcollection/Archaeofructus.html
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Read more about the first spores at:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v425/n6955/full/425248a.html
and about the earliest land plants in general at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/eng/old1.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/engcook/ecooks.html
http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/conq.htm
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Read more about the Rhynie Chert, and see color images of the exquisitely preserved plants, at:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/rhynie
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian/rhynie.html
http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/erhynie.html
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/Rhynie/index.html
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Read more about palynology at:
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/palynology.html
http://www.palynology.org
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Read more about Carboniferous wildfires and plant ecosystems at:
http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/isb200/carbfor.htm
http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/ewald1.htm
http://www.colby.edu/~ragastal/Paleobotany/Permocarboniferous.html
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Read more about angiosperms and their pollination at:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/Angiosperm.html
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio303/coevolution.htm
