Paleobotany

(noun)

the branch of paleontology or paleobiology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts

Related Terms

  • mycorrhiza

Examples of Paleobotany in the following topics:

  • Evolution of Land Plants

    • Paleobotany (the study of extinct plants) addresses these questions through the analysis of fossilized specimens retrieved from field studies, reconstituting the morphology of organisms that disappeared long ago.
  • Evolution of Angiosperms

    • New data in comparative genomics and paleobotany have, however, shed some light on the evolution of angiosperms.
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