Dark palynomorphs from the dark period of the history of life:
"Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during the end-Triassic mass extinction suggests ...heat stress, and periods of prolonged drought alternating with extreme precipitation..."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
"Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during the end-Triassic mass extinction suggests ...heat stress, and periods of prolonged drought alternating with extreme precipitation..."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
July 21, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Dark palynomorphs from the dark period of the history of life:
"Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during the end-Triassic mass extinction suggests ...heat stress, and periods of prolonged drought alternating with extreme precipitation..."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
"Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during the end-Triassic mass extinction suggests ...heat stress, and periods of prolonged drought alternating with extreme precipitation..."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
🌿🔬 11th Non-Pollen Palynomorphs (NPP) Workshop 2027 | Vilnius, Lithuania
Excited to share the announcement of the 11th NPP Workshop, taking place 7–11 June 2027 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Excited to share the announcement of the 11th NPP Workshop, taking place 7–11 June 2027 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
September 13, 2026 at 5:42 AM
🌿🔬 11th Non-Pollen Palynomorphs (NPP) Workshop 2027 | Vilnius, Lithuania
Excited to share the announcement of the 11th NPP Workshop, taking place 7–11 June 2027 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Excited to share the announcement of the 11th NPP Workshop, taking place 7–11 June 2027 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Finally, plants can teach us about the impacts of colonialism. Pollen and phytolith analysis from colonial Portuguese Cape Verde displays the transformation of native vegetation into a dynamic agricultural landscape, dominated by imported plants 7/7
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
April 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Finally, plants can teach us about the impacts of colonialism. Pollen and phytolith analysis from colonial Portuguese Cape Verde displays the transformation of native vegetation into a dynamic agricultural landscape, dominated by imported plants 7/7
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Sad that Jim's pond preserves a palynomorphs that indicates xeric (dry) climatic conditions & does not reflect the paleosols indicating a wet climate at the base of Yellow Cat. But revised correlation with the "Calcrete from Hell" at top of the lower Yellow Cat at Ruby Ranch road this makes sense.
August 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Sad that Jim's pond preserves a palynomorphs that indicates xeric (dry) climatic conditions & does not reflect the paleosols indicating a wet climate at the base of Yellow Cat. But revised correlation with the "Calcrete from Hell" at top of the lower Yellow Cat at Ruby Ranch road this makes sense.
Starting the week with some oatmeal? #OatmealMonday
Analysis of the gut contents of the Tollund Man, an Iron Age body from Denmark preserved in a peat bog, found his last meal was a barley porridge. Was this ordinary fare or related to ritual practices?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Analysis of the gut contents of the Tollund Man, an Iron Age body from Denmark preserved in a peat bog, found his last meal was a barley porridge. Was this ordinary fare or related to ritual practices?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
The last meal of Tollund Man: new analyses of his gut content
The last meal of Tollund Man, a bog body from Early Iron Age Denmark, has been re-examined using new analyses of plant macrofossils, pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, steroid markers and proteins found in his gut. Some 12–24 hours before he was killed, he ate a porridge containing barley, pale persicaria and flax, and probably some fish.
doi.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Starting the week with some oatmeal? #OatmealMonday
Analysis of the gut contents of the Tollund Man, an Iron Age body from Denmark preserved in a peat bog, found his last meal was a barley porridge. Was this ordinary fare or related to ritual practices?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Analysis of the gut contents of the Tollund Man, an Iron Age body from Denmark preserved in a peat bog, found his last meal was a barley porridge. Was this ordinary fare or related to ritual practices?
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
📃Scientific paper: Abundance, diversity and taphonomy of dung-related palynomorphs from modern animal enclosures and faecal samples
Ref.: Springer, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Ref.: Springer, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
September 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📃Scientific paper: Abundance, diversity and taphonomy of dung-related palynomorphs from modern animal enclosures and faecal samples
Ref.: Springer, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Ref.: Springer, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
"Tracing hydrological and ecological dynamics in a volcanic barrier-lake system in NE Iberia during the Late Glacial–Early Holocene using non-pollen palynomorphs" with support using #Ostracoda and #Charophyta
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tracing hydrological and ecological dynamics in a volcanic barrier-lake system in NE Iberia during the Late Glacial–Early Holocene using non-pollen palynomorphs
The environmental evolution of volcanic barrier-lake systems is shaped by complex interactions between climate forcing and local geomorphological proc…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"Tracing hydrological and ecological dynamics in a volcanic barrier-lake system in NE Iberia during the Late Glacial–Early Holocene using non-pollen palynomorphs" with support using #Ostracoda and #Charophyta
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nice stack! Unique gemmate ornament, no clue what it is, I work with fossil palynomorphs using z-stacks.
January 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Nice stack! Unique gemmate ornament, no clue what it is, I work with fossil palynomorphs using z-stacks.
I just think this is cool: the re-colonization by marine life at the site of the Gardnos meteor crater - except this is Neoproterozoic in age, before complex life.
#PaleoSky #Geology 🧪🦕🦖⚒️
From "P3":
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PaleoSky #Geology 🧪🦕🦖⚒️
From "P3":
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reestablishment of an early life shallow marine ecosystem in the Neoproterozoic Gardnos meteorite impact crater (Norway)
Trace fossils, microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS), palynomorphs and particulate organic matter (POM) found in post-impact sediments in …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I just think this is cool: the re-colonization by marine life at the site of the Gardnos meteor crater - except this is Neoproterozoic in age, before complex life.
#PaleoSky #Geology 🧪🦕🦖⚒️
From "P3":
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PaleoSky #Geology 🧪🦕🦖⚒️
From "P3":
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📄 New publication!
Excited to contribute to this community paper proposing a clearer framework for identifying and naming non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#Palynology #NonPollenPalynomorphs #Palaeoecology #NEOLANDSCAPE #MSCA
@geode-cnrs.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu
Excited to contribute to this community paper proposing a clearer framework for identifying and naming non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#Palynology #NonPollenPalynomorphs #Palaeoecology #NEOLANDSCAPE #MSCA
@geode-cnrs.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu
Redirecting
doi.org
July 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM
📄 New publication!
Excited to contribute to this community paper proposing a clearer framework for identifying and naming non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#Palynology #NonPollenPalynomorphs #Palaeoecology #NEOLANDSCAPE #MSCA
@geode-cnrs.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu
Excited to contribute to this community paper proposing a clearer framework for identifying and naming non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#Palynology #NonPollenPalynomorphs #Palaeoecology #NEOLANDSCAPE #MSCA
@geode-cnrs.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu
Hoffman et al. Mississippi Saurlophine
Discovered c. 2011 on private land
“Booneville Dinosaur”
Subadult or adult + isolated dentary of nestling
Coffee Fm of Selma Group, near contact with Eutaw
Late Early to Early Middle Campanian based on palynomorphs
Partial pubes and most of left humerus
Discovered c. 2011 on private land
“Booneville Dinosaur”
Subadult or adult + isolated dentary of nestling
Coffee Fm of Selma Group, near contact with Eutaw
Late Early to Early Middle Campanian based on palynomorphs
Partial pubes and most of left humerus
October 31, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Hoffman et al. Mississippi Saurlophine
Discovered c. 2011 on private land
“Booneville Dinosaur”
Subadult or adult + isolated dentary of nestling
Coffee Fm of Selma Group, near contact with Eutaw
Late Early to Early Middle Campanian based on palynomorphs
Partial pubes and most of left humerus
Discovered c. 2011 on private land
“Booneville Dinosaur”
Subadult or adult + isolated dentary of nestling
Coffee Fm of Selma Group, near contact with Eutaw
Late Early to Early Middle Campanian based on palynomorphs
Partial pubes and most of left humerus
Unusual biota and palynofacies of a Lower Devonian intermontane basin saline lake–playa mudflat ecosystem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
January 28, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Unusual biota and palynofacies of a Lower Devonian intermontane basin saline lake–playa mudflat ecosystem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
🌍 Check out AASP-The Palynological Society, an AGI Member Society, which promotes the #science of #palynology and fosters the spirit of scientific research on #palynomorphs, such as pollen, spores, and dinoflagellates: palynology.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🌍 Check out AASP-The Palynological Society, an AGI Member Society, which promotes the #science of #palynology and fosters the spirit of scientific research on #palynomorphs, such as pollen, spores, and dinoflagellates: palynology.org
How Late Pleistocene Climate Shaped Hominin Adaptations in South China
rcnamericageorgia.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
rcnamericageorgia.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
How Late Pleistocene Climate Shaped Hominin Adaptations in South China
Major palynomorphs from the Sandinggai section. GA, UNITED STATES, November 7, 2025 / EINPresswire.com / -- New evidence from South China r...
rcnamericageorgia.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
How Late Pleistocene Climate Shaped Hominin Adaptations in South China
rcnamericageorgia.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
rcnamericageorgia.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
I wonder if ichnotaxa (trace fossils), acritarchs & palynomorphs, or paleobotany macrofossils win as the ‘most poorly studied’ taxonomy in paleontology…
December 5, 2024 at 1:26 PM
I wonder if ichnotaxa (trace fossils), acritarchs & palynomorphs, or paleobotany macrofossils win as the ‘most poorly studied’ taxonomy in paleontology…
I think it's incredible news that Japan's oldest plant fossils were discovered in Ofunato City, but it seems to be hardly, if at all, reported in Iwate, doesn't it? I believe this should be covered far more than the news about Shohei Ohtani...
bioone.org/journals/pal...
bioone.org/journals/pal...
Early Land Plant Spore Assemblage from the Devonian Nakazato Formation of the South Kitakami Belt, Northeast Japan
A palynological study was conducted for the first time on the Lower Devonian Nakazato Formation in the South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan. The palynomorphs were primarily examined using a scanning e...
bioone.org
March 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
I think it's incredible news that Japan's oldest plant fossils were discovered in Ofunato City, but it seems to be hardly, if at all, reported in Iwate, doesn't it? I believe this should be covered far more than the news about Shohei Ohtani...
bioone.org/journals/pal...
bioone.org/journals/pal...
Isabel was one of the earliest scientists to recognize pollen and spores could be used to reliably define different geological periods. In her lifetime, she described 550 species and 110 genera of plants and palynomorphs
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...
December 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Isabel was one of the earliest scientists to recognize pollen and spores could be used to reliably define different geological periods. In her lifetime, she described 550 species and 110 genera of plants and palynomorphs
...
...
And I am among them!
I am deeply grateful to my colleagues for this incredible gesture!
Check out the entire paper published in the Journal of Micropalaeontology: jm.copernicus.org/articles/43/... (3/3)
I am deeply grateful to my colleagues for this incredible gesture!
Check out the entire paper published in the Journal of Micropalaeontology: jm.copernicus.org/articles/43/... (3/3)
High Arctic late Paleocene and early Eocene dinoflagellate cysts
Abstract. Palynomorphs, notably sporomorphs and organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts, or “dinocysts”, are the only abundant microfossils consistently present in the sole available central Arctic upper ...
jm.copernicus.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:03 AM
And I am among them!
I am deeply grateful to my colleagues for this incredible gesture!
Check out the entire paper published in the Journal of Micropalaeontology: jm.copernicus.org/articles/43/... (3/3)
I am deeply grateful to my colleagues for this incredible gesture!
Check out the entire paper published in the Journal of Micropalaeontology: jm.copernicus.org/articles/43/... (3/3)
Sounds interesting. Given their spherical shape and symmetry i guess that could be potentially useful for retrodeformation. We are going through similar issues in our project as we are studying parasite eggs and palynomorphs from coprolites through thin sections as well as dissolution samples.
April 25, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Sounds interesting. Given their spherical shape and symmetry i guess that could be potentially useful for retrodeformation. We are going through similar issues in our project as we are studying parasite eggs and palynomorphs from coprolites through thin sections as well as dissolution samples.
Palynology of the Cerro de Las Cabras Formation (Middle Triassic) at Estancia La Obligación, Cuyana Basin, Mendoza, Argentina: systematics, palynostratigraphy & long-distance correlations with the northern hemisphere onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
May 26, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Palynology of the Cerro de Las Cabras Formation (Middle Triassic) at Estancia La Obligación, Cuyana Basin, Mendoza, Argentina: systematics, palynostratigraphy & long-distance correlations with the northern hemisphere onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
There is a (slowly) developing set of preprints on this that at least provides full references for things, and some figures.
(PDF) Palynomorphs from the Solnhofen Formation Lagerstätte, Bavaria, Southern Germany (Revised)
PDF | This preprint adds two photo plates to the manuscript which not published. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There is a (slowly) developing set of preprints on this that at least provides full references for things, and some figures.
“Palynomorphs preserved in the mudstone indicate a mid-Cretaceous, roughly 92 to 83 million years ago, swampy temperate rainforest near the South Pole that was dominated by conifers...”
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
First-ever amber discovery in Antarctica reveals lost prehistoric rainforest
Amber usually brings to mind tropical forests, trapped insects, and warm landscapes. That is what makes the new Antarctic find so striking.
www.yahoo.com
June 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
“Palynomorphs preserved in the mudstone indicate a mid-Cretaceous, roughly 92 to 83 million years ago, swampy temperate rainforest near the South Pole that was dominated by conifers...”
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
Novos palinomorfos da Formação Zagórze do Devoniano Inferior (Emsiano) das Montanhas da Santa Cruz, Polônia doi.org/10.1080/0191...
New palynomorphs from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) Zagórze Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
A recent palaeontological investigation of Lower Devonian clastic strata from Poland has revealed the occurrence of a new type of palynomorph, which have elongate vesicles of variable proportions a...
doi.org
June 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Novos palinomorfos da Formação Zagórze do Devoniano Inferior (Emsiano) das Montanhas da Santa Cruz, Polônia doi.org/10.1080/0191...
Shaikh, Mayor, Ainlay-Vazquez, Viswanathan, Golden, Zhang, Romero, White, Wing, Barman: Scalable Detection of Fossil Palynomorphs in Multifocal Digital Microscopy Images https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05323 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.05323 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.05323
September 7, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Shaikh, Mayor, Ainlay-Vazquez, Viswanathan, Golden, Zhang, Romero, White, Wing, Barman: Scalable Detection of Fossil Palynomorphs in Multifocal Digital Microscopy Images https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05323 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.05323 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.05323
Colin Barras reports on a recent paper by Peng et al that finds a healthy ecosystem barely 75,000 years after the end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago, thought to be the deadliest mass extinction ever. Barras finds the deadliness of mass extinctions might depend on who you talk to. (2/10)
Refugium amidst ruins: Unearthing the lost flora that escaped the end-Permian mass extinction
Here, we investigated palynomorphs, plant, and tetrapod fossils from the Permian-Triassic South Taodonggou Section in Xinjiang, China.
doi.org
June 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Colin Barras reports on a recent paper by Peng et al that finds a healthy ecosystem barely 75,000 years after the end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago, thought to be the deadliest mass extinction ever. Barras finds the deadliness of mass extinctions might depend on who you talk to. (2/10)