KU Paleobotany

KU Division of Paleobotany
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[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

From our very own curator, Dr. Matsunaga! 🌲🎄🌲

[Kelly Matsunaga @kk_matsunaga]

Sharing our new #OpenAccess paper in @IJPSJournal on some funkay fossil conifers from Mongolia🌲 @kunhm @FabianyHerrera

Please enjoy a CT rendering of the hairy young seed of this conifer, complete with micropylar arms (bottom) for pollen capture

https://t.co/HnTqzmV1DI

[KU Natural History Museum @kunhm]

Big congratulations to @KeanaTang, @KU_EEB student in @KuPaleobot, who was awarded an @NSF Graduate Student Program Fellowship! 🎉 📸 Keana with an insect, from last summer's Insta takeover! @KUGradStudies

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

Way to go Keana! 🎇🌠

[Habitual B @BrianAtkinology]

Huge congrats to @KeanaTang for being awarded a NSF GRFP!!! I was already proud, but damn 😭😭😭

@KU_EEB @kunhm

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

Check out this awesome research from our very own curator, @kk_matsunaga !

[Kelly Matsunaga @kk_matsunaga]

Sharing a new paper just out in #AJB on my work with @umich_paleobot on the evolutionary relationships of fossil palms https://t.co/XIXyI381x3

tldr: we CT scanned over 200 palm fruits to find that modern palm tribes were having a blast in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene🌴

[Kelly Matsunaga @kk_matsunaga]

Sharing a new paper just out in #AJB on my work with @umich_paleobot on the evolutionary relationships of fossil palms https://t.co/XIXyI381x3

tldr: we CT scanned over 200 palm fruits to find that modern palm tribes were having a blast in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene🌴

[Mario Coiro, @[email protected] @Lepidodendron]

Cordaites actually contains the Latin word “cor”, heart <3

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

#FossilFriday : Valentines Edition
💗💗💗Mitrospermum compressum 💗💗💗
Permineralized seed of the long extinct cordaites. Known for their heart shaped seeds

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

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[KU Natural History Museum @kunhm]

We're sending a #MuseumLoveLetter 💕out to all, inspired by our friends at the @SpencerMuseum! Thanks to our @KuPaleobot team for this lovely heart-shaped cross-section of the petiole from a Schopfiopteris repens or fern, from the #Triassic!

[KU Natural History Museum @kunhm]

An $850,000 @NSF grant will support KU BI/NHM curator Brian Atkinson’s work in #Antarctica, studying how modern plants evolved & provide unique opportunities for KU student researchers. #paleobotany #fossils @BrianAtkinology ➡️https://t.co/tbj75EJJTD

[KU Natural History Museum @kunhm]

Today's #FossilFriday is this #Clubmoss fossil from our popular living 🌿PaleoGarden exhibit. Explore our brand new virtual version of the PaleoGarden & learn more about the evolutionary history of plant life!
➡️ https://t.co/pTa61enLwJ #carboniferous

[Habitual B @BrianAtkinology]

Happy #AntarcticaDay2020 🇦🇶 heres some (complementary) Permian (~255 million years old) fossil trees from the Transantarctic mountains. 2 of them still have roots attached!

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

Gorgeous view with gorgeous fossils. Check out this awesome work by one of our research affiliates, Anne-Laure!

[KU Natural History Museum @kunhm]

Brian Atkinson, @KU_EEB & curator of #Paleobotany at the KU Biodiversity Institute, is 1 of 7 mentors lending insights to tomorrow's @PaleoSoc event! #GSA2020 @KuPaleobot

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

Welcome to the collections #FossilFriday

[Kelly Matsunaga @kk_matsunaga]

For National (day after😅) Fossil Day, why not take a brief virtual tour of the @KuPaleobot paleobotanical collections with our collections manager, Dr. Rudolph Serbet! #NationalFossilDay

https://t.co/VcX2Yfk5Ab

[Jennifer McElwain @JenniferMcElwa3]

Dr Carla Harper will be giving a talk on the Forests of Antarctica this Friday 9th at 2.00pm as part of @TCD_NatSci Ecol and Evol Seminar Series. @iCRAGcentre @TCDGeolMuseum. DM me for the link if you would like to attend online.

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

@IJPSJournal Love to see it!

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

Woohoo! A (forthcoming) special issue honoring our curator emerita, Edie Taylor!

[Habitual B @BrianAtkinology]

Plz R/T!

Do you like Cretaceous plants, evolution, AND Antarctica?

Well friends, @umich_paleobot and I are searching for grad students to join our labs via our Antarctic grant! Fieldwork
is included. Contact us if you're interested!

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

Its a really exciting time for KU Paleobotany. Join us!!

[Habitual B @BrianAtkinology]

Hey yall plz retweet!

I'm searching for a post-doctoral researcher who is interested in integrative paleobotany and/or plant systematics. If you have enthusiasm for plant fossils, anatomy, and phylogenetics, contact me!

[KU Paleobotany @KuPaleobot]

New Antarctic research form our very own personnel, Edie Taylor and Rudy Serbet as well as our awesome affiliates!