plant fossils
Petrified botanical remains
Plant fossils are preserved remains or traces of ancient vegetation found in rock, amber, or sediment.
They include petrified wood, leaf impressions, seeds, spores, and pollen.
Plant fossils help scientists reconstruct past climates and ecosystems: The plant fossils in this shale indicate a tropical environment sixty million years ago.
- paleobotanyStudy of ancient flora
- gymnospermExposed-seed plant
- tree fernArborescent spore-bearer
- compressionForcing into smaller space
- carbonizationConversion to char
Devonian · Silurian · deep time · petrification · Carboniferous · fern · extinct · cast · amber · prehistoric · preserved · frond · specimen · cycad · ancient · ginkgo · coal · forest
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- paleontologydinosaurs, paleontology, dinosaur bones, dinosaur fossils, fossils
- botany historyCarl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, herbarium, herbaria, botanical gardens
- Paleozoic eraCambrian period, Carboniferous period, trilobites, brachiopods, Burgess Shale
- fossilizationfossilization, petrification, mineralization, carbonization, cast
- paleobotanyfossilized wood, petrified wood, fronds, ancient seeds, prehistoric plants
plant fossilsdinosaur bones
Preserved prehistoric reptile skeletons
insect fossils · dinosaur fossils · human remains · trace fossils · human fossils
plant fossilsgreen plants
Photosynthetic living organisms
herbarium specimens · fresh flowers · dried plants · seedlings