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Lower Devonian coalified sporangia from Shropshire: Salopella Edwards & Richardson and Tortilicaulis Edwards
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A diverse assemblage of coalified sporangia from Lochkovian/Gedinnian, fluvial rocks imicrornatus-newportensis Spore Biozone) contains fusiform forms assignable to Salopella Edwards & Richardson and Tortilicaulis Edwards, and trilete, equatorially thickened and highly distinctive.About:
This article is published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.The article was published on 1994-10-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Salopella & Tortilicaulis.read more
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The origin and early evolution of plants on land
TL;DR: A recent surge of interest in palaeobotanical discoveries and advances in the systematics of living plants provides a revised perspective on the evolution of early land plants and suggests new directions for future research.
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Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras
TL;DR: Cryptophytes encompass a pool of diversity from which modern bryophytes and vascular plants emerged, but were competitively replaced by early tracheophytes, and the long-held consensus that tetrads were the archetypal condition in land plants is challenged.
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New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a lilliputian world
TL;DR: The earliest body fossils of unequivocal terrestrial arthropods isolated from the same locality as the Přidoli plants suggest that the decomposer/microherbivore/predator soil and litter communities found in the Lower and Middle Devonian extend back at least into the Silurian.
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Silurian and Lower Devonian plant assemblages from the Anglo‐Welsh Basin: a palaeobotanical and palynological synthesis
Dianne Edwards,J. B. Richardson +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive survey of plant assemblages from Upper Silurian (Gorstian-Přidoli) and Lower Devonian (Lochkovian-Pragian) localities in South Wales and the Welsh Borderland is presented, together with some comments on recent improvements in dating and correlation as discussed by the authors.
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Miospore evolution from the Ordovician to the Silurian.
TL;DR: The definition of the term cryptospore is amended to include only spores thought to be produced by embryophytes and to exclude all enigmatic palynomorphs, and cryptospores are included here in the miospore group.
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Silurian and Devonian spore zones of the Old Red Sandstone Continent and adjacent regions
J B Richardson,D C McGregor +1 more
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Land animals in the silurian: arachnids and myriapods from shropshire, England.
TL;DR: The presence of predatory arthropods suggests that complex terrestrial ecosystems were in place by the late Silurian (414 x 10(6) years before present) and that the animal invasion of the land occurred earlier than was previously thought.
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A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia
TL;DR: Tubes with differentially thickened walls typical of tracheary elements found in the central region of axes of Lower Devonian unequivocal C. pertoni are reported, vindicating Lang's belief that Cooksonia was a vascular plant.
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XXIV.—On Old Red Sandstone Plants showing Structure, from the Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire. Part II. Additional Notes on Rhynia Gwynne-Vaughani, Kidston and Lang; with Descriptions of Rhynia major, n.sp., and Hornea Lignieri, n.g., n.sp.
R. Kidston,W. H. Lang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a general account was given of the silicified peat-bed found at Rhynie, and one vascular plant was described in detail under the name of Rhynia Gwynne-Vaughani.