And some of the fossils have arrived in Montpellier just in time for #FossilFriday 🎉 Most of them are stems with their tissues and cells preserved in 3D. They will be prepared as thin-sections & observed under the microscope to find out what plants they belonged to 🌿⛏️🔬 #paleobotany

This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane. #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

In May and Jully 2025, I presented some new results from my PhD dedicated to the Latest Famennian flora of Euramerica🌿 in the Swedish Museum of Natural history and at Agora Paleobotanica in Paris. At Agora, I was awarded the Boureau Prize for the best oral presentation. 😄🏆 #Paleobotany #Devonian

Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.

Today's fossil is a very tiny branching stem with preserved tissues - check the scale bar! 🌿⛏️🔬 It belonged to a lycopsid (= a clubmoss) that grew in what is now southern France during the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago #paleobotany #FossilFriday Ref: doi.org/10.1016/0034...

Happy #FossilFriday and #FernFriday ! This beautiful fossil leaf belongs to a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France during the late Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #fossil #botany

Fieldtrip day 1: today we visited not 1 but 2 sites with fossil plants 🌿⛏️🤩 Here's a nice Stigmaria, the rooting structure of a lycopsid tree from the latest Carboniferous, a little over 300 million year ago. (and yes it is extremely warm 🌡️)

Finally plants for #3DThursday!🌽 A maize root tip, imaged using #microCT, from the Topp Roots Lab. 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Versa 520 XRM 🥼: Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social 🏛️: Danforth Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social 📝: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... 🎬: syGlass.io #syGlass

This one is a section in a Sphenophyllum stem with 3d preserved tissues. It's from the same area (Hérault department) but early Carboniferous in age so about 50 million years older 🌿⛏️ Open access reference: doi.org/10.5252/geod... 2/3 #paleobotany

Attention, la deadline approche ! #paleobotany #paleontology #geosciences 🌲🍄🐝🐟🦖⛏️

Pour les francophones un petit article sur la terrestrialisation des plantes pour ce #FossilFriday 🌿⛏️ lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/pla... #paleobotany #fossil

Prep for Lyme Regis Fossil Festival is almost finished!!! All I have left are a few prints to print, stickers to cut, and a workshop intro spiel to fine-tune! Hope to see y'all there next weekend!!! #paleobotany #paleontology #paleoart #fossilfestival #stickers #merch #dinosaurs #plants

#Botany Enjoy some lovely ferns lato sensu and lycophytes found within the lovely spruce forest of Tyresta national park (Sweden).

Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

Heading out to a park this #FossilFriday? Be sure to visit Horton Park in Bradford, where you can see one of three huge fossil trees! These Carboniferous giants were excavated from Clayton in the late 19th Century and placed on public display to "inspire future generations of geologists".

For this #FossilFriday a question for paleobotanists and people interested in #paleobotany 🌿⛏️: what are the groups of fossil plants and/or the big events in plant evolution that you would like to read a new review paper about? #botany #fossil #plant #evolution

Happy #FossilFriday and #FernFriday 🌿⛏️ The fossil is a piece of Pecopteris foliage (Marattiales) from the late Carboniferous of France, a little over 300 million year old. Extant fern: Dryopteris filix-mas (Polypodiales). #paleobotany #fossil #botany

Our paper is now published🌲⛏️🇦🇶 #paleobotany #fossil #botany

Aujourd’hui, c’est la journée de la Terre Celle qui nous nourrit et nous fournit tant de choses que l’on ne soupçonne parfois même pas. Comme les métaux de nos téléphones, l’argile dans les cosmétiques, le gypse pour le plâtre, le verre, le zinc… Ou l’eau tout simplement !

Don't sneeze! These are spores of a 360 million year old lycopsid 🌿⛏️🔬 Today lycopsids (clubmosses) are small plants & relatively rare but in the Paleozoic some species formed large trees. The spores here have been fossilized still attached in groups of 4 (tetrads) Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany

The ultimate Jurassic Core

If you are a paleobotanist or botanist interested in doing a postdoc on fossil plants with me in Montpellier, I'm happy to help prepare a proposal for this year's #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship call (deadline Sept. 10). marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... 1/3 #paleobotany #botany

I'm at the Museo di Scienze Naturali dell'Alto Adige/Naturmuseum Südtirol for a few days to look at some cool fossil plants 🌿⛏️ And practice my (equally) catastrophic German & Italian *at the same time* 🙊 #paleobotany (photos from the public exhibit)

Literally every extinct plant ever. Unless it's the Carboniferous, plants are basically never restored in popular palaeo media; instead, we just get modern ginkgoes, tree ferns, monkey puzzles, cycads and horsetails. Attempts to restore specific appropriate extinct taxa are never made. #paleobotany

Happy early #FossilFriday from synchrotron Soleil ☀️ After some successful tests yesterday, we are going to spend the next 72 hours sending very strong X-rays at very old fossil plants to see very small details of their very cool insides 🤓🌿⛏️ #paleobotany

For #FossilFriday, a trunk of Bennettitale from the Cretaceous of the UK. Bennettitales are an extinct group of plants that was common in the Mesozoic and looked a bit like cycads 🌴⛏️ You can also play with a low resolution 3D model of this fossil here: sketchfab.com/3d-models/be... #paleobotany

My favorite scale bars! 🍫Glossopteris wood, Permian, Antarctica 2012 🐨🦉Leptophloeum, Devonian, Australia 2018 Happy #paleobotany #FossilFriday 🌿⛏️

Secondary dispersal of 4 ferns and 28 flowering plants by Neotropical otters in Brazil. "Diploendozoochory” occurs when propagules are ingested first by prey and then by otters. @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @wwf-water.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

Today's teaching: the wonderful Rhynie Chert - a 400 million year old terrestrial ecosystem - for Yr 3 Palaeobiology on #FossilFriday, then a final piece of evidence dropped for Yr 2 plant biology problem-based learning, and next metamorphic rocks lab for Yr 1. 🧪🌱🌎⚒🔬

The GMI announces a new EMBO workshop titled "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" - right here in Vienna. The hybrid event will be held on November 25-27 at the Vienna BioCenter. Register by August 25 at meetings.embo.org/event/25-plant-evolution.

Happy #FossilFriday 💚 This heart-shaped seed was produced a little over 300 million year ago by a plant that was growing in what is now southern France 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany 1/2

Another cute middle #jurassic plant frond #fossil from yesteryear #geology #paleontology

Nice light . A beautiful image from @jeromewildastro for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

The Herefordshire Biota, a diverse assemblage of animals from the Silurian-age rocks of the UK. Among the largest animals is Thanahita, a strange relative of Hallucigenia with soft papillae lining its back.

What I love about palms 4. They are so unlike other plants! They grow differently & stand out among plants. 1. Plectocomia elongata, a climbing rattan palm emerging above the canopy in Singapore. 2. Copernicia rigida & Bactris cubensis in serpentine vegetation, Cuba. #palms #Arecaceae #botany 🌾🧪🌱

Distraction from shitty news with a ✨shitty fossil! ✨ This fossil wood is full of galeries filled with small coprolites = fossil poop produced by tiny arthropods who dug in the trunk over 250 million years ago 🌳💩⛏️ #paleobotany #fossil

閲覧中。 - Species New to Science: [PaleoBotany • 2025] Zosterophyllum baoyangense • The smallest Zosterophyllum plant from the Lower Devonian of South China and the divergent life-history strategies in zosterophyllopsids novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/01/zost...

For this #FossilFriday: a cross section of a tiny fossil rootlet. It belonged to a Glossopteris tree that was growing in the late Permian, about 260 million years ago 🌳⛏️ #paleobotany *~ 0.5 mm in diameter

I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole with the flora/fauna of Jurassic China. Off the top of my head, other insect groups you could include in your Jurassic #paleoart: caddisflies, beetles, water boatmen, mayflies, lacewings, cockroaches, snakeflies, scorpionflies etc.

For the 1st #FossilFriday of 2025, some pieces of fossil plants from our fieldwork in Ireland last September 🌿⛏️ They belong to extinct lycopsids ("clubmosses") that were growing in the region during the end of the Devonian, about 360 million years ago. #paleobotany #botany

A 300 million year old lycopsid tree from Brymbo Fossil Forest, on display in National Museum Cardiff (was National Museum of Wales). The trunk is about 30cm diameter. #FossilFriday #paleobotany 🧪⚒️🌍🌿

Fun fact: Permian Cathaysia (now southern China) was the last bastion of Carboniferous-style "coal swamp" forests, including the iconic "scale trees" (D, E) that were extinct everywhere else. They made it all the way to the Great Dying!

A Christmas tree's relative for this #FossilFriday: conifer foliage from the early Permian of France 🎄⛏️ #paleobotany

You can now acess the published article until January 31 with this link kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... #paleobotany

I'm really glad to announce that I've obtained the FNRS funding for my PhD project dedicated to the Latest Famennian flora of Euramerica, supervised by @val-fisch.bsky.social and Dr. Cyrille Prestianni.

Spruce bud rust, Chrysomyxa woroninii, is an edible gall (mostly to the people of Sweden). Swedes know it as, "Mjölkomlor," or flour rolls. It's also a food source for grouse as captured by its Finnish name, "Teerenleipa," or grouse bread. #gallsky #gall #fungifriends #fungi #ethnobotany #nature

#FossilFriday 🌿 Meet Cephalopteris and its Belgian relative Rhacophyton! By the end of the Devonian, these early ferns, with planated but unlaminated ultimate appendages, were among the euphyllophytes converging on leaf evolution. #Paleobotany #FernFriday

A broken piece of fossil wood from the late Devonian (~360 million years ago) of Australia under the microscope 🌲⛏️🔬 All the long vertical structures are conducting cells. How tiny are they? I put a hair for scale on the right (about 0.05 mm in width)! Happy #FossilFriday #paleobotany

Trees were found in quarrying operations in the C19th. They were in the overburden of Portland Stone and also Carboniferous sandstone quarries in N England & Scotland. They were carefully excavated when found. See this blog by @fossiliam.bsky.social madliam.blogspot.com/2015/05/digg...

"Discovery of the rare drought-tolerant plant Lesleya (Spermatopsida) from the Buçaco Carboniferous Basin (Stephanian C, western Iberia) and its palaeogeographic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic implications." www.researchgate.net/publication/... Plant recon by Vitor Silva