Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution
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...…with many recent estimates lying New Phytologist (2015) 207: 437–453 2015 The Authors New Phytologist 2015 New Phytologist Trustwww.newphytologist.com Research New Phytologist438 between c. 190 and 150Ma (e.g. Magall on, 2010; Smith et al., 2010; Clarke et al., 2011; Magall on et al., 2013; Fig....
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...[62], while Cooksonia can be placed in the total group Tracheophyta with confidence, with additional synapomorphies such as stomata [68] and sporophyte branching [52, 69], other characters, such as the sterome [68], are not considered to be a synapomorphies of the crown group Tracheophyta....
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...[62], the soft maximum age constraint is based on the first appearance of trilete spores, in the Qusaiba-1 core from the Qasim Formation, northern Saudi Arabia [139]....
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...[62], Zosterophyllum is considered to be a member of the Lycopodiophyta total group, based on the lateral insertion of reniform sporangia along stems, which dehisce along their distal margins into two valves [69]....
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...[62] proposed trilete spores as the minimum age providing fossils for the Embryophyta node, the oldest record known from Late Ordovician strata of Saudi Arabia (see node 112 for discussion on trilete spores)....
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...[62], Rellimia thomsonii is considered to be the oldest unequivocal aneurophytalean progymnosperm fossil [163], thus the oldest record of crown Euphyllophyta....
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...Molecular clock analysis was performed using MCMCTREE (Yang & Rannala, 2006; Rannala & Yang, 2007; Inoue et al., 2010), part of the PAML 4 package (Yang, 2007), with branch lengths estimated in BASEML....
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