The Division of Paleobotany recommends the following for those interested in pursuing their interests in this field:
Amber: Window to the Past
David A. Grimaldi
New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996. pp. 8–126.
Araucaria
Walter Jung, Alfred Selmeier and Ulrich Dernbach
Germany: D’oro-Verlag, 1992, pp. 18–160.
Common Fossil Plants of Western North America, 2nd edition
William D. Tidwell
Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998, 299 pp.
The Forest Primeval:
The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests
Leo J. Hickey
New Haven: Yale Peabody Museum, 2003, 62 pp.
Available from The Museum Store.
The Fossils of Florissant
Herbert W. Meyer
Washington and London: Smithsonian Books, 2003, 258 pp.
Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants, 2nd edition
W.N. Stewart, and G.W. Rothwell
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 521 pp.
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
http://www.dmnh.org
Florida Museum of Natural History
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu