top of page

Plant fossils are also very important for understanding the evolution of the world as we know it. Fossilized plant remains are responsible for vast deposits of coal and possibly the oil reserves of the Earth's crust. The air we breathe is the result of millions of years of oxygen produced by them. They are also important for understanding what the environment was like in the distant past, when dinosaurs lived here, or even before that. They are also used to study Continental Drift, the oceans floating on magma. His study is Paleobotany. The study of fossilized pollen (Palynology) can also clarify what the environment was like where a fossil animal lived.

Fossil plants are found as leaves, fronds, cones, bark sections, flowers and petrified wood. Fully complete specimens are quite rare. Fossil ferns are possibly the most abundant and recognizable of all fossil plants. Almost all fossil fern finds are seed ferns. They are all extinct (Gymnosperms), which resembled true ferns, but reproduced by seeds instead of spores. See some examples of plants from our museum collection.

Art & Science

A website for the Art & Science Institute

_________________________________________

Exhibition "Life on Earth"

Final-Logo-Art&Science-CRMadella-Auric

You are our number visitor

Contact

Parabéns! Sua mensagem foi recebida.

Copyright © 2024 - Instituto Arte&Ciência. All rights reserved.

bottom of page