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📝 Fairlingtonia from the Lower of Basin, Northwest and its radiation in 🇨🇳

♦️ Du et al, Journal of and
🔗 https://t.co/KdzepMhfgj

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2022-11-22

I love these 19th century palaeobotanical illustrations.
I started my path studying plant fossils looking at this one:
https://t.co/Hpb4MSbzBu

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2022-11-17

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Manchester & al in press | Two-seeded cones of probable affinity from the Formation (Late of and | Acta Palaeobotanica: https://t.co/XWYFzc0ULb

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2022-08-01

Howdeedoodlethere!
Agender bi demisexual palaeobotanist here!

P.s. thanks Lori for creating this post, it's great seeing all the other queer palaeos out there!

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2022-06-02

I haven't done any artwork in months, so it's nice getting back into it again!
This is another diagram for the glossary I've been working on, so it'll eventually be fully labelled. These are the reproductive organs of the extant genera.

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2022-05-26



📝 New discovery of rare damage in the of reinforces the biogeographic of Eurasian

🔗 https://t.co/fmA5kV9dTB
♦️ Hazra et al. | of and

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2021-12-18

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Scott in press | from the Pennsylvanian of Implications for the interpretation of | Review of and Palynology (): https://t.co/Cy6UxO5WL8

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2021-10-11

The use of to reconstruct changes in the (Lopingian) Zechstein deposits of northeast
Gibson & Wellman | Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
https://t.co/ZDAshkN8Z6

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2021-02-18

𝙄𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙢 𝙬𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙞❗️🌱🌱🌱
Correia & al. in press | The Iberisetum wegeneri gen. nov., sp. nov. from the Upper of | Historical Biology: https://t.co/liQjqKo3oq

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2021-02-04

I've just finished a couple more illustrations; an (bar 10mm) and an (bar 20mm). These are based on cone specimens presented in Kunzmann et al, 2004, from the Crato Formation.

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2021-01-15

and reconstructions for another plate. These are the female and male reproductive organs of (some)

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2020-12-16

And may I present to you...

Fossils, Clocks and the Origin of Angiosperms.

My latest blog post, which takes a look at a new paper, and it's overall implications for the origin of the flowering plants!

https://t.co/CdJwVg8a5e

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2019-05-19


I wanted to find a plant to coincide with so here's the closest thing I could find - a

A very striking Sphenopteris artemisiifolia from 'Illustrations of fossil plants' (1877)

https://t.co/TmeXpd8oih

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2018-11-23

If you're visiting tomorrow, join me at in the Attenborough studio at 12.30 or 14.30 to learn about the world our stegosaur lived in
https://t.co/t5F0jwGF4N

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2017-12-16