Multiple Choice Quiz on Paleobotany | Plant Science Quiz

This quiz is designed to make you aware some "Paleobotany". Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Rhynia belongs to a geological period

Devonian
Permean
Carboniferous
Cambrian
2. Which is known as fossil bryophyte
Riccia fluitans
Marchantia palmata
Marchantia polymorpha
Naiadita lanceolata

3. Birbal Sahni is popularly known as
Mycologist
Paleobotanist
Physiologist
Phycologist
4. Baragwanathia, a fossil pteridophyte was discovered from
Rajmahal hills of Bihar (India)
Silurian beds of Victoria (Austraila)
Rhynie chert beds (Scotland)
Mudstones near Gilboa (New york)
5. "Fossil beehives" is the name associated with fossil
Cycads
Coniferales
Ginkgoales
Bryophytes
6. Link between Isoetales and Carboniferous Lepidodendrales is
Sigilaria
Stigmaria
Pleuromia
Lycopodium
7. 'Gothania' are
Leaf genus of Cordaitales
Monosporangiate cones of Bennettiales
Fructifications of Pteridsperms
Fructifications of Cordaitales
8. Which of the following gymnosperm of Bennettiales (Cycadeodales) was recovered from Rajmahal hills by Prof Birbal Sahni
Sahnia
Williamsonia
Pentoxylon
Heterangium
9. The Gymnosperm known as living fossil and represented worldwide distribution in Jurassic is
Ginkgo
Ephedra
Williamsonia
Lyginopteris
10. Zosterophyllum is a
Fossil algae
Fossil bryophyte
Fossil pteridophyte
Fossil gymnosperms
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