Naming of parts: the use of fossil-taxa in palaeobotany

Fossil plants are extinct whose remains (referred to as plant fossils) found preserved in sedimentary deposits. Plant fossils classified using fossil-taxa defined the International Code of Nomenclature. Fossil-taxa differ conceptually from taxa living that they often do not refer whole organisms, but one or more parts parent organism, preservational states. There can be complications when two a shown connected, states correlated, and avoid disrupting wider palaeobotanical taxonomy it is best keep separate. Extinct fossil reconstructed by piecing together given formal Linnean taxonomic names. also problems for fossils, even there close morphological similarity particular parts. different reflect ranks so care must taken such floristic phylogenetic studies. Because taphonomic factors, number “artificial” have proved useful, despite fully systematic positions plants.