Category: paleoart
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Palaeobotany for Paleoartists III: Fossil Gnetales
Here is the third part of my Paleobotany for Paleoartists series, dedicated to a less well-known group that was however very successful during the Early Cretaceous: the Gnetales. Extant Gnetales are comprised of three highly distinc genera, namely Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwtischia. This last species is probably the most well known, mostly because of its…
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Palaeobotany for Paleoartists II: Fossil Ginkgoales
Given the relative intests in my post on the paleaortistic representation of the fossil Cycadales, I have decided to write an extremely small post about the paleoartistic representation of another fan favourite: Ginkgo and its fossil relatives. Though many beautiful representations exist of this charismatic tree and some of its fossil relatives (helped by their…
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Palaeobotany for Paleoartists: Fossil Cycads
In recent times, I have been interested in the way that fossil plants are represented (or more often, not represented) in palaeoartistic works. Though I have started a project trying to combat this issue, I wanted to weight in on the issue in a more direct way by using my expertise in a particularly charismatic…
Mario Coiro 