Paleobotany is the study of plants that lived in prehistoric times. It largely involves the study of fossils, that is, impressions of plant parts that have been preserved in sedimentary rock or coal. The most ancient plant fossils are of microscopic...

Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany (from the Greek words paleon = old and "botany", study of plants), is the branch of paleontology or paleobiology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their...