{"id":707,"date":"2018-10-02T04:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palaeobotany.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=707"},"modified":"2018-10-02T04:43:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:43:33","slug":"introduction-to-plant-fossils","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/featured-palaeobotanical-links\/introduction-to-plant-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Plant Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Full Title:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> &#8220;Introduction to plant fossils&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Authors:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Christopher J. Cleal &amp; Barry A. Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Year:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Publisher:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> Cambridge University Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">ISBN:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\"> 978-0-521-88715-1 (hardback), 978-0-521-71512-6 (paperback)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sectionhead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">This book provides a practical introduction to the study of plant fossils, and is especially written for those who have had little previous experience of this type of palaeontology.\u00a0 It should prove particularly useful to students of introductory or intermediate courses in palaeobotany, palaeontology and plant evolution, and a valuable resource for amateurs looking for help in identifying and studying plant fossils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sectionhead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The illustrated text summarises the main groups of plants that occur as fo<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ssils and explains how best to investigate them. It provides useful guidance about modern research techniques that reveal hidden details of anatomical and reproductive characteristics, and of the kinds of features that are used to identify the most <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">commonly-found plant fossils.\u00a0 The main approaches for interpreting fossil plants are discussed, and the book highlights how such methods can be employed by the palaeobotanist to increase our knowledge of plant evolution, palaeoecology, palaeogeography and stratigraphy. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/_img\/bookReviews\/Cleal_978052175126.JPG\" alt=\"Introduction to plant fossils\" width=\"498\" height=\"648\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Title: &#8220;Introduction to plant fossils&#8221; Authors: Christopher J. Cleal &amp; Barry A. Thomas Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 978-0-521-88715-1 (hardback), 978-0-521-71512-6 (paperback)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeobotany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}