Paleobotany
for Beginners
UCMP
Phylogeny Wing
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html
These pages from the University
of California Berkeley's
renowned website offer a K-12
friendly tour of life through
time - with a special look at
plants.
National
Biological Information Infrastructure
http://www.nbii.gov/disciplines/botany/index.html
This well organized educational
website offers hundreds of topical
illustrated pages about botany
and plant biology, as well as
resources and activities for teachers
and kids. This site will be useful
for hobbyists and researchers
alike.
Virtual
Paleobotany Laboratory
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Dir.html
This technical, well-illustrated
and elegantly-organized site was
developed as an online paleobotany
course for college students. The
Virtual Paleobotany lab provides
in depth information about fossil
plants, morphology, ecology and
plant evolution. The site range
charts for plant lineages and
a phylogeny of land plants based
on current evidence.
Links
for Paleobotanists
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/palbot1.html
This easily navigable site provides
an extensive annotated list of
links about plant anatomy, taxonomy,
preservation, taphonomy, paleoclimate,
evolution/extinction - even fossil
plant illustrations. Links are
organized by interest area.
International
Organization of Palaeobotany
http://iop.biodiversity.org.uk/
Log on for a comprehensive,
searchable database of fossil
occurrences of plants -including
searchable map of plant distributions
worldwide.
Internet
Directory for Botany
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/idb-alpha/botany.html
This web site not only offers
more botanical web sites that
you could hope for, it provides
an effective search engine to
refine your quest.
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