International Organisation of Palaeobotany

Our abilities to communicate and share information quickly over great distances have improved greatly since the advent of the internet. However, although information relevant to our science abounds, finding the specific information that meets your own interests and needs can still be a challenge. The following links may help you to find specific contents. Please send suggestions for other links to be added to this list to the site administrators.

Palaeobotanical discussion groups:

Palaeobotanical Careers

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Online palaeobotanical links:

• Botanical Society of America's Paleobotanical Section
• Palaeobotanica Latinoamericana (Discussion group to promote communication between paleobotanists working in Latin America)
• Palaeobotanical Society of India
• Klaus-Peter Kelber's palaeobotany links (Universität Würzbur, Germany).
• University of Muenster (Germany) links for palaoebotanists

• University of Kansas Bibliography of Paleobotany


• The CLAMP (Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program) Homepage at the Open University (UK).

Palaeobotanical Journals

• Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (Elsevier publishers)
• Acta Palaeobotanica (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krackow)
• The Palaeobotanist (Birbal Sahni Institute, India).
• Palaeontographica Abteilung B (E.Schweizerbart, Borntraeger & Cramer Science Publishers, Germany)
• Palaeontology (includes some palaeobotany and palynology).

Other useful links

• International Commission on Stratigraphy - standardised stratigraphy on a global scale.