Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants
Originally published in 1993, this second edition of a successful textbook describes and explains in a refreshingly clear way the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record and summarises paleobotanical information relevant to our understanding of the relationships between the major plant groups, extant and extinct. As in the first edition, the text is profusely illustrated with line illustrations and half-tones. For those students with little knowledge of plant structure and morphology there is a brief resumé of those features of extant plants that will be needed to gain a better understanding of the fossil record. Summarising charts are also used to help students visualise the interpretative material.
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Contents
Introduction
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1 |
preservation preparation and age determination
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7 |
systematics reconstruction and nomenclature
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24 |
Life in the Precambrian
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32 |
Diversification of the fungi
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46 |
Diversification among the algae and related plants
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55 |
speculation
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68 |
Bryophyta
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77 |
The emergence of the Marattiales and Ophioglossales
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226 |
Filicales of the Carboniferous
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238 |
The emergence of the modern Filicales Salviniales and Marsileales
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250 |
Freesporing plants with gymnospermous secondary wood
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263 |
early evolution
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279 |
Paleozoic gymnosperms with fernlike leaves
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295 |
origins and relationships
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338 |
The enigmatic cycadeoids
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350 |
vascular plants primitive types
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85 |
The evolution of microphylls and adaxial sporangia
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106 |
The isoetalean clade
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125 |
Paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian coal swamps
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162 |
the Trimerophytopsida
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171 |
The origin of the Sphenopsida
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180 |
the Upper Paleozoic sphenophylls
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190 |
The origin of the horsetails
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198 |
Putative ferns of the Paleozoic
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212 |
More innovation and diversification among gymnosperms
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366 |
Ginkgo
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385 |
The first coniferophytes
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393 |
The diversification of conifers and taxads
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413 |
The origin and early evolution of angiosperms
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438 |
diversification radiation and modernization
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468 |
Major evolutionary events and trends in retrospect
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505 |
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Common terms and phrases
adaxial algae American Journal angiosperms arborescent Archaeopteris axes axis base bracts Carboniferous carpel cells characteristics cones conifers cortex Crepet Cretaceous cupule cycadeoids cycads Delevoryas Devonian dichotomous Dilcher distal Eggert environment Eocene evidence evolution evolutionary evolved extant ferns fertile Figure flora foliage fossil fossil record fronds gametophyte genera genus groups gymnosperms integument Journal of Botany Jurassic land plants leaf traces leaves Lepidodendron Lower Cretaceous Lower Devonian lycopods medullosan megasporangium megaspores Mesozoic micropyle morphology occur origin ovules Palaeobotany and Palynology Paleozoic Palynology Pennsylvanian Permian permineralized petiole pinnae pinnules pith pollen preovules primary xylem primitive protostele protoxylem pteridosperms radial reconstruction Redrawn reproductive Review of Palaeobotany rhizomorph Rothwell secondary xylem seed shoots showing similar species specimens sperms sphenopsids spirally arranged sporangia sporangiophores sporangium spores sporophyte stem sterile Stockey structure synangia Taylor telome telome trusses terminal tissue tracheids transverse section Triassic Upper Devonian vascular plants vascular system vegetative whorls wood