Graduate student from Berkeley restored exterior plants that lived 375 million years ago

If you type in a search engine query "dinosaur", then in the SERPs, in the picture, there will be thousands and thousands of pictures with dinosaurs. Here and imagination of the artist, and the reconstruction of the appearance of the various ancient animals from serious scholars.

But on ancient plants the situation is different - in most cases, we will see pictures of fossilized remains of plants, their traces in modern sedimentary rocks. A graduate of Berkeley, Jeff Beneke, decided to try to reconstruct the appearance of the plants that lived during the Devonian, is about 400 million years ago.



Needless to say, the color of the plant can not be recovered exactly, but some indirect evidence and speculation of a graduate student led to, hopefully, most realistic model of the appearance of ancient plants. The plant itself was named in Latin Leclercqia scolopendra. Largely guided by the graduate student group appearance of modern plants lycopods, which include Leclercqia scolopendra.

In most cases, the remains of plants that lived in such a remote period, fragmentary. Yes, and they do not come across as often, because the plant - not vertebrate mineralized plant, especially the small size, it is extremely rare. And the work of graduate students and his team will help paleobotanists restore the appearance of many other ancient plant fossils which are in the collections of many museums.



Unfortunately, the technical details on the website of Berkeley presented not so much basic data - Article graduate students who can take the here .

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Source: habrahabr.ru/post/219787/