#paleobotany is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 11 people shared 20 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is up 25% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 23 with 4 posts.

Posts with #paleobotany

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

6 months ago

I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime: Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart! Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm

A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

1 day ago

In preparation for @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social's Family Fun Day next week, I've made a large poster of Middle Jurassic Chinese plants for an activity I'm running. But what will I be doing with it? Perhaps it involves a few hidden beasties. #FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany

A photo art composite landscape of a jurassic forest, with a real photo background of a tree base and various jurassic plan drawings extending in from the edges of the image.

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Daniel Álvarez

@dalvarez-01.bsky.social

5 months ago

This fossil was shown to me and I really liked the delicate fan-like pattern. Not sure what it is though — maybe a marine plant, or possibly a bryozoan colony. The texture looks like a net or a leaf, and it made me stop and look twice. #Fossils #Paleontology #Paleobotany #Travel

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

1 day ago

Come along to Lapworth Museum next Wednesday to learn about palaeoart and the techniques involved, and meet some of the palaeoartists who create it! #FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany (Taxa depicted in the next slide)

A close up of a Ginkgo like plant with narrow branches and bright green yellow leaves

A scsle-leaf conifer with many small random branches covers in scale like leaves

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

I'm taking a look at the Rhynie Chert again, so I made a quick size chart of the plants I've already illustrated from it. These plants are some of the earliest land #plants, being from the Early #Devonian. From left to right: Asteroxylon, Horneophyton and Aglaophyton. #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart

Three primative plants on a size chart. On the left is a green thick stemmed plant with horizontal stems which curve upwards, with branded tuberous roots growing down. Behind it is the pale silhouette of a hand. Middle is a plant composed of dense intertwining clusters of narrow dichotomising stems. A callout bubble showing the roots is on the left of it. On the right is a green stemmed plant with outh curved arching horizontal stems and upright dichotomising stems which end in orange brown oval shaped sporangia.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

11 months ago

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's a little goober I haven't shared here yet: a Tianyulong jumping of a broken branch of Yimaia capituliformis (a relative of ginkgo). This is based on an unpublished specimen which did the rounds online a few years ago. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology #dinosaur

a small brown dinosaur with a very fluffy round body and a long skinny tail with a tuft at the end jumping off a broken off ginkgo branch, splinters of wood fly through the air behind it.

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Dr Susannah Lydon

@susieoftraken.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

A 300 million year old lycopsid tree from Brymbo Fossil Forest, on display in National Museum Cardiff (was National Museum of Wales). The trunk is about 30cm diameter. #FossilFriday #paleobotany 🧪⚒️🌍🌿

A Carboniferous lycopsid tree from Brymbo Fossil Forest, on display in National Museum Cardiff

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

I almost missed the first #FossilFriday of 2025. Anyway, better late than never: here's my reconstruction of Wielandiella angustifolia, which I did last year!!! 2024 was a productive year of #paleoart, and that'll hopefully continue this year, so stay tuned!!! #paleobotany #paleontology #plants

A bennettitalean, wielandiella. A cluster of branches drawn diagrammatically are in the centre, dicotomising three times. At the end of each branch is a dense cluster of long green serrated leaves. Anatomical drawings of these leave are in the bottom right, amd a close up of a cone is in the top left: it looks like an onion. A picture eof the whole bush, which is rounded is in the top left, and a cross section the the stem is in the bottom left.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

about 2 years ago

For #FossilFriday, here's a restoration of the possible life appearance of #Equisetites arenaceus, from the Early Late Triassic of Europe; a horsetail with stems up to 25cm across! I have more information about this on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/107…. #paleobotany #paleoart

A coloured pen restoration in a single grown Stem, which is 10 m tall,next to a tall woman. The stem is ribbed with clusters of short frilly branches in the top half, looking like a wide pipe cleaner. There are pale silhouetted of other stems in the background and a short growing stem is to the left of the big one.

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

@palaeojules.bsky.social

almost 3 years ago

The #Ginkgoales mega-diagram I've been working on is finally done, so I've written a #blog post to showcase it! There is a key to all the species included and some personal thoughts I had while doing it. I hope you enjoy! palaeoflora.blogspot.com/…. #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo