palaeobotany

/ ˌpælɪəʊbəˈtænɪkəl; ˌpælɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ /

noun

1. the study of fossil plants

Derived Forms

• ˌpalaeoˈbotanist, noun
• palaeobotanical, adjective

Example Sentences

"Although the 201 million year old fossil leaves of Furcula granulifer show the net-like hierarchical veining of leaves typical for most plants today, we found out that it is actually part of the now extinct group of seed ferns, so it seems that this typical leaf-form that allows efficient photosynthesis, has evolved several times during earth history," confirms Leyla Seyfullah, head of the research group "Palaeobotany and terrestrial palaeoecology" at the University of Vienna.

From Science Daily

Botany, too, with its history as a feminized pursuit from the eighteenth century, proved welcoming, as did palaeobotany, which was strongly female-oriented in the first decades of the twentieth century5.

From Nature

Pan started a postdoc at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, after earning a PhD in palaeobotany, and was planning to continue on the academic path until another option opened up.

From Nature

The five episodes of First Peoples move quickly but deftly through evidence from archaeology, palaeobotany, osteology, and oral history to demonstrate the antiquity of human exploration of the continents of North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

From Forbes

Thomas H. Rich is senior curator of vertebrate paleontology and palaeobotany at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne.

From Scientific American