Paleobotany

(noun)

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

Related Terms

Examples of Paleobotany in the following topics:

  • Archaeology

    • In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research, drawing upon anthropology, history, art history, classics, ethnology, geography, geology, linguistics, semiology, physics, information sciences, chemistry, statistics, paleoecology, paleontology, paleozoology, paleoethnobotany, and paleobotany.

  • 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.