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Botany: Subject Specialty II

Definitions: Paleobotany & Palynology

Paleobotany (also palaeobotany; phytopaleontology; phytopalaeontology)
  • The study of plant life of the geologic past
Palynology 
  • The study of pollen and spores, both living and fossil

-from A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 2d. ed. (1998)

Palynology

Paleobotany

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