Plant Fossils

The study of the plant kingdom of the earliest period of the earth's history is an interesting and complicated field, which is known as 'Paleobatony'. The most important material subjects of these studies are the fossil remains of past geological ages. They are available in the form of dendrolites, carbonised, mineralised and petrified remains of plants and in the form of inclusions in amber spores (or) pollen grains.

Today, Paleobotany gives a clear survey of the development of the plant kingdom and of the flora of the individual periods of the history of the earth. Some of the fossils are kept on display.

Plant impression on white shale :

It is an unidentified plant fossil impression on white shale collected from a clay pit near the PWD Rest house in Sriperumbudur (Tamilnadu).

Fragments of Elatocladus conferata :

It belongs to an important group of 'Jurassic' plants. It is a conifer fossil representing an impression by a twig with leaves found in the clay bed near Sriperumbudur (Tamilnadu).