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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Palaeogene by Gentis and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/p6mt @nicolasgentis.bsky.social #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

Fossil wood from Myanmar reveals that tropical Asian forests were shaped by ancient plant migrations from Gondwana. The study shows that some lineages spread from Africa to India and Southeast Asia during the early Palaeogene, forming a now-extinct floristic province that played a key role in the assembly of modern tropical floras.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What a thrill to witness my cacao tree bloom for the firt time (at only 4 y.o) 😍 #theobroma #cacao #botany

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Très heureux de contribuer à mon échelle à ce beau journal ! Aujourd'hui on parle de #biogeographie et d'arbres fabuleux : les #Dipterocarapaceae Very happy to do my part to contribute to this wonderful news paper ! Today we talk about #biogeography and one of my favorite trees: #Dipterocarps

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Office with a view ❄️ The Jardin des Plantes @mnhn.fr is so amazing when there is snow. What a perfect gift for its 400th anniversary ! #snow #museum #paris

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Teaching tropical #wood anatomy today. Look at this gorgeous #Andira (Fabaceae) and this nice aliform-confluent parenchyma pattern ! I only took the picture with my phone. It's all visible with a naked eye.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is the third paper from my thesis 👏. This time focusing on paleobiogeographical interpretations with 6 unique species. Fossil wood is a treasure trove of information waiting to be unearthed 🌳. Many thanks to @annbot.bsky.social for this thread #fossilwood #paleobotany #gondwana

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Amazing workshop last week in Arles, focused on how integrating geological and paleoclimatological constraints in phylogenetic and biogeographic reconstructions! 11 countries, 55 people, and 3 days of talks and brainstorming with a balanced group of biologists, geologists and climatologists.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The annual #Orchid exhibition at the Grandes Serres of the @mnhn.fr. Always delightful 😊

Pink and purple orchids handing on aerial structures in the tropical warehouse

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is my PhD trophy (a tradition in our team) and I LOVE it! I've indeed worked partly on Dipterocarpaceae... which explains the fruit. #wood #phd

The base of the trophy is a thick section of a Juniperus stump, on the left side stands a ring made of Eucalyptus and in the center of the ring is a fruit of Dipterocarpus.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Not a fossil for #fossilfriday but another #watercolor illustration from the Middle Miocene of Myanmar done by my mother. You can see Dipterocarps in full bloom, a Dipterocarpus and an Artocapus. #paleoart

A tropical forest seen from the canopy with a river delta in the horizon and a big monsoon cloud. Blossoming tree in the middle, a Dipterocarpus on the left with fruits and an Artocarpus with fruit on the right.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

For #FossilFriday here is a mandala of some raw fragments of fossil wood. You have Fabaceae, Moraceae and Dipterocarpaceae here. #paleobotany #wood #fossil

Fossil wood fragments of different shapes and colours arranged in a rosette pattern.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What is the best collaboration I had ? My mother, who made this watercolor landscape illustration of the Paleocene of Myanmar for one of my thesis chapters 🥳 #paleobotany #paleoart #paleocene #watercolor

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Perfectly ripe persimmon (kaki, in french) showing the vascularisation. I found it fascinating... and delicious ! #fruit #botany #anatomy

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New medium, new introduction to my work. Here is the first paper I published from my thesis. "Fossil wood from the lower Miocene of Maynmar" in full open access ✅️⤵️ 🔗 geodiversitas.com/44/28 We describe 30 specimens of Dipterocarpaceae, Fabaceae, Moraceae and Burseraceae

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Fossil wood from the lower Miocene of Myanmar (Natma Formation): palaeoenvironmental and biogeographic implications

The palaeobotanical record of Myanmar (Burma) is poorly documented despite its importance for understanding the evolution of Asian monsoonal ecosystems through time. Here, we describe 20 taxa of fossi...

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The #Ginkgo at the #JardinDesPlantes in Paris are gorgeous this year too. Their bright golden leaves really stand out.

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Cédric Del Rio @cdelrio.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi everyone! For my first post here, I'd like to share this beautiful Williamsonia from the "Jurassique en voie d'Illumination" exhibition at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris! 🗼 #Paleobotany #

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Preprint: Schizolepidopsis gerriennei sp. nov.: an Early Jurassic ovulate cone from #Belgium Léa De Brito, Valentin Fischer, Pascal Godefroit, Cyrille Prestianni 🧪⚒️ #paleobotany #palaeobotany www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

Ovulate cone of Schizolepidopsis gerriennei (holotype, IRSNB_b_9671). a whole fossil in its sandy matrix, b imprint of scales in the center of the ovulate cone, c imprint of scales at the base of the ovulate cone with black arrow pointing at the imprint of a bilobed scale, dcomplete preserved apex of the ovulate cone. Scale bar: a 50 mm, b ̶ d 10 mm.

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I also called on the Herbonautes community to computerize the #Dipterocarpaceae labels of the Paris #herbarium #mnhn. This is indeed a powerful and exciting initiative.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

For #FossilFriday, a picture of @nicolasgentis.bsky.social surrounded by pictures of fossil wood material from his PhD thesis (a huge xylotheque on paper, from the fossil forests of Myanmar)

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

I can finally say I experienced one of the computer crashes that MUST happen right before submitting the thesis manuscript. The pdf is corrupted AND the original file has disappeared. 😬😱

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Nicolas Gentis @nicolasgentis.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Hi, I'm new to the BluePlace. Let's talk about paleobotany and fossil wood !

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