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AASP - The Palynological Society (the former "American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation"):
! What is Palynology? Including some links about the history of palynology. See especially:
Palynology: Principles and Applications. Excellent! Snapshot taken by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Keith W. Abineri, West Borough, Wimborne, Dorset, UK: THE EXAMINATION OF MICROFOSSILS, NANNOFOSSILS AND OTHER MICROSCOPICAL OBJECTS USING CELLULOSE LACQUER ROCK PEELS.

N. Aggarwal (2022): Sedimentary organic matter as a proficient tool for the palaeoenvironmental and palaeodepositional settings on Gondwana coal deposits. Open access, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 12: 257–278.

Alexa (Alexa Internet, Inc., an Amazon.com Company). Alexa is a Web Information Company, perhaps best known for the Alexa Rank, the website ranking system which tracks over 30 million websites worldwide. See especially: The top ranked sites in category "Science". Go to:
! Palynology.

! Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas (APSA). Free online access to the largest collection of pollen and spores information in the Australasian region. The APSA collection is currently located at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

! D. Bailey (2014), FORCE Biostratigraphy Seminar: New observations on Mesozoic miospores and acritarchs, and the implications for existing taxonomy, classification and phylogeny. in PDF.
Website outdated. The link is to a version archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! David J. Batten and Darrin T. Stead (2007): Palynofacies Analysis and its Stratigraphic Application. PDF file; In: Koutsoukos, Eduardo A.M. (ed.) Applied Stratigraphy. Series: Topics in Geobiology, Vol. 23.
See also here (in PDF) and there (Google books).

A.B. Beaudoin (1996): What is palynology? C.A.P. Newsletter, 19: 11-17.

Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton: A CAREER AS A PALYNOLOGIST. Snapshot taken by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine. See also Highlights from Recent CAP Newsletters. Selected articles online in palynology.

H.J.B. Birks et al. (2016): The fourth dimension of vegetation. Science, 354: 412-413.

John Birks University of Bergen and University College, London:
Pollen-climate transfer functions - problems and pitfalls.
Powerpoint presentation.

S. Blackmore (2007): Pollen and spores: Microscopic keys to understanding the earth´s biodiversity. In PDF, Pl. Syst. Evol., 263: 3-12.

! The Botanical Society of America: Online Image Collection. This is a collection of approximately 800 images available for instructional use. The site is run by a search engine database, designed and maintained by Scott Russell; slides scanned by Tom Jurik and Dave Webb. The copyright and any intellectual property rights for these images are retained by the individual donors. Visit "Set 10 - Pollen". Slides contributed by Darlene DeMason and Marsh Sundberg and others.

Monica Bruckner, Montana State University ( website hosted by Microbial Life, Educational Resources): Paleoclimatology: How Can We Infer Past Climates?

! Owen Kent Davis, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson:
Palynology. This page outlines information about palynology in the broadest sense. Go to:
Palynology Definitions & Illustrations . Excellent! See likewise:
UofA Palynology Web Site of the Month.
Websites outdated. Links lead to versions archived by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! Owen Kent Davis, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson:
Palynology. This page outlines information about palynology in the broadest sense. Go to Palynology Definitions & Illustrations . Excellent! See also: UofA Palynology Web Site of the Month.
See especially: University of Arizona, Catalog of Internet Pollen and Spore Images,
! Catalog of Internet Pollen and Spore Images. Superbly done!

! Owen Davis, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: Palynology Definitions.
Palynology - Pollen.
Pollen and Spore Identification Literature.
Palynology - Pollen. Including a key to pollen classes.
These expired links are now available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Owen Kent Davis, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona Tucson: QUATERNARY PALYNOLOGY AND PLANT MACROFOSSILS. Lecture notes. Go to: Pollen Diagrams.
These expired links are now available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Danielle Drayton, Department of Biology, University of Miami: Welcome to the Fascinating World of Phylum Dinoflagellata (now via wayback archive). Information about dinoflagellate morphology, life history and evolution of dinoflagellates.

Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Pollen.
Spore.

! G. Erdtman (1943): An introduction to pollen analysis. In PDF.
Provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

Anjum Farooqui, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India: Endemic Rainforest and its geological past in the Indian Peninsula. Powerpoint presentation.

Kenneth L. Finger, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA: What Are Microfossils?
Now recovered from the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! S.G.A. Flantua et al. (2023): A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large-scale syntheses using fossil pollen. Open access, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 32: 1377-1394.
Note figure 1: Essential data processing components needed to create a standardized, harmonized, palaeoecological dataset compilation before macro-scale data analysis.
Figure 3: Summary figure of FOSSILPOL workflow providing an overview of the inputs, main workflow steps and outputs.
"... With our FOSSILPOL workflow and R-package, we provide a protocol for optimal handling of large compilations of fossil pollen datasets and workflow reproducibility ..."

! O. Gavrilova et al. (2017): Potential of CLSM in studying some modern and fossil palynological objects. Abstract, Journal of Microscopy, 00: 1–19. See also here and there (in PDF).

! J. Gravendyck et al. (2022): Assessing taxon names in palynology (I): working with databases. Free access, Palynology, DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2022.2026834:

! H. Halbritter et al. (2018): Illustrated Pollen Terminology. Open access, Springer.
This open access book offers a fully illustrated compendium of glossary terms and basic principles in the field of palynology. It is a revised and extended edition of “Pollen Terminology. An illustrated handbook,” published in 2009. This second edition, titled “Illustrated Pollen Terminology” shares additional insights into new and stunning aspects of palynology.
See likewise here.

! Daniel Hauptvogel, Virginia Sisson et al. (2023), Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston:
The Story of Earth: An Observational Guide 2e . Second edition (Pressbooks), Open access. You can download a printable PDF version.
Navigate from the content menue page. Note especially:
! Chapter 11: Paleoclimate.

Michael Hesse et al. (2009): Pollen Terminology. An illustrated handbook. Abstract: "The term palynology was coined after a written discussion with Ernst ANTEVS and A. Orville DAHL in the Pollen Analysis Circular no. 8 by HYDE and WILLIAMS (1944)".

C.L. Hill, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho: Great Strategies for Teaching Paleontology: Paleobotany – 200,000 Years of Pollen and Environmental Change. Powerpoint files, On the Cutting Edge - Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century. Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY.

! Christopher L. Hill, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho:
Great Strategies for Teaching Paleontology
Paleobotany – 200,000 Years of Pollen and Environmental Change. Powerpoint presentation. See also here . In PDF.

C. Hill, Boise State University: Background Information for Paleobotany Exercise: 200,000 Years of Pollen and Environmental Change. In PDF.

Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Palynology and its geological applications. A version archived by Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Worth checking out: The Glossary.

Feli Hopf, Peter Shimeld, Stuart Pearson, Pollen Image Management, School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia (website hosted by Australasian Quaternary Association):
! The Newcastle Pollen Collection. This pollen collection offers a text or a graphics search. Excellent! Now provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! J. Jansonius and D.C. McGregor (1996): Introduction, Palynology: Principles and Applications. AASP Foundation. v. 1, pp 1-10: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE p.1-2. The history of palynology. Website saved by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

David M. Jarzen, Paleobotany Division, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida: What Is Palynology?

! T.P. Jones and Nick P. Rowe (eds.), Google Books (some pages are ommitted): Fossil plants and spores: modern techniques. Published by Geological Society, 1999, 396 pages. Excellent! Click: "Preview the book". Go to page 47:
Light microscopy of fossil pollen and spores.

Petra Kaltenrieder and Peter von Ballmoos, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland: Introduction to Pollen Analysis. Go to: Illustrated key to the 44 pollen- and spore types found in quarternary sediments in Switzerland.

Laboratory of Paleobotany, Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (PIN RAS), Moscow. See also here:
! Palynodata (now available by Eugeny Karasev).
This great bibliographic database is based on Gerhard O. W. Kremp's initial research and compiled since 1974 by Palynodata Inc., under the direction of Ken Piel. 122,422 species are currently indexed from 22,152 documents of global palynological literature.

J.H. Lipps, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: Microfossils.

! M. Macphail and G.S. Hope (2003): Natural Histories: An illustrated guide to fossil pollen and spores preserved in swamps and mires of the Southern Highlands, NSW. PalaeoWorks Technical Report 1. 134 pollen and spore taxa as colour images.
Still available by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
See also here.

! Andrew MacRae, Palynology at The University of Calgary Dept. of Geology and Geophysics:
What is paleopalynology? Information about preservation and processing samples, spores, pollen and dinoflagellates, and type image repository. See also:
Terrestrial palynomorphs -- spores and pollen.
Available by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

G. Mackenzie et al. (2015): Sporopollenin, the least known yet toughest natural biopolymer. Frontiers in Materials, 2.

Matthew Mason, EnvironmentalScience.org: With Palynology We Can See the Tiniest Details.

R. Mathieu et al. (2011): Manuel de Micropaléontologie. In French, Carnets de Géologie. See also:
here (in PDF).
Available by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

J.H. McAndrews, from CAP Newsletter 21: 23, 1998 (start on PDF-page 23): Palynological Myths: Monitoring Contamination of Fossil Pollen Preparations.

Micropaleontology Press: What is micropaleontology?
Available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS).
TMS exists to advance the education of the public in the study of Micropalaeontology and is operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes and not for profit. See especially: Palynology.

! A. Miebach (2021): Pollen reveals the plant world of the past. In PDF, Pages horizons, 1. Easy to understand information.
See also here.

MIRACLE (Microfossil Image Recovery And Circulation for Learning and Education), University College London, Micropalaeontology Unit: Palynology.

Germán Mora and William Gutowski, Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University: Quaternary Paleoclimatology. Lecture notes. Go to:
Pollen Analysis. Powerpoint presentation.

D.R. Oldroyd (ed.), 2002: The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century. In PDF, Geological Society Special Publication 192.
Table of contents on PDF page 6. See especially:
! PDF page 280, W.A.S. Sarjeant: "As chimney-sweepers, come to dust": a history of palynology to 1970.

! Matthew Olney, Micropalaeontology Unit, University College, London (now at Northern Illinois University, U.S.A.): An insight into micropalaeontology. The purpose of this site is to provide an introduction to the subject of micropalaeontology based on microfossil images. Use the dark blue text to navigate around the site. Go to:
Palynology.
Spores and Pollen.
Acritarchs and Chitinozoa.
Dinoflagellates. See also:
The Link Page, containing an alphabetical list of links that may be of interest or use to anyone searching the world wide web on the subject of micropalaeontology.

Jeffrey M. Osborn: Palynology (PDF file).

! W. Punt, S. Blackmore, S. Nilsson and A. Le Thomas (a project of the Working Group on Palynological Terminology, under the auspices of the International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS). Second and revised edition by Peter Hoen, Department of Palaeobotany & Palynology, University of Utrecht: Glossary of Pollen and Spore Terminology (Second and revised edition by Peter Hoen, now via wayback archive). The objective of the project has been to provide a concise manual of terminology that can be used to clarify the communication of information concerning pollen grains and spores. Excellent!
! See also here.

Quizlet.com study tools:
! Search for Palynology.

O. Ronneberger, U. Heimann, E. Schultz, V. Dietze, H. Burkhardt, R. Gehrig: Automated pollen recognition using gray scale invariants on 3D volume image data (now via wayback archive). Second European Symposium on Aerobiology, Vienna / Austria, Sept. 5 - 9, 2000.

The Latz Research Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Dinoflagellates: This section describes the life history and ecology of dinoflagellates, and explains how and why they produce bioluminescence.

Michael G. Simpson: Palynology (Powerpoint presentatation).

Lee Spencer and Art Chadwick, Earth History Research Center (a non-profit, non-sectarian organization of scientists), Southwestern Adventist University Keene, TX: Name that Pollen or Spore.

Thomas Stebler, Switzerland: Pollen-Wiki (in German). Worth checking out:
! Glossar.

Maryland Archeobotany, The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Maryland´s State Museum of Archaeology, St. Leonard: See also: How To Read A Pollen Diagram.

A. Traverse (2007): Paleopalynology (2nd ed.), Springer. Provided by Google books. See especially:
! Palynological Laboratory Techniques (in PDF).

Unit of Micropalaeontology, University College, London (website written, designed and produced by Matthew Olney, University College, London, U.K., now at Northern Illinois University, U.S.A.): MIRACLE, the Microfossil Image Recovery And Circulation for Learning and Education web-site. Go to: Palynology, and Spores and Pollen.

U.S. Geological Survey: Spores and Pollen.
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! Charles H. Wellman and Jane Gray (2000): The microfossil record of early land plants. PDF file, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 355: 717-732.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A history of palynology.

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Micropaleontology,
Palynology,
Pollen,
Spores, Palynofacies, and
A history of palynology.
See also: The German Wikipedia:
Palynologie,
Pollen, und
Sporen (in German).

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Category:Evolution of plants
! Timeline of plant evolution.
Evolutionary history of plants.

D. Yeloff and C. Hunt (2005): Fluorescence microscopy of pollen and spores: a tool for investigating environmental change. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.