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The oldest land plants (2)
... ) did not appear before the Middle Devonian. Possibly the plants formed thick shrubberies using the spines as a hold. Another spiny plant from the Early Devonian is Drepanophycus spinaeformis. This one ... further the Devonian proceeds, the more forms appear and the higher some plant species become. In the Middle Devonian tree'ferns' appear with a height of some meters. In the Late Devonian some ...
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The evolution of plants: I. Silurian and Devonian
... number of places where plants from the Silurian, the Lower and Middle Devonian have been well preserved. A huge source of information on ... Middle Devonian the plants became taller and little trees arose, sized up to 1 of 2 m. But real trees came in the Late Devonian. ... from the fine website Devonian Times. Especially in Belgium quite a number of plants from the Upper Devonian are found. An example is ...
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The oldest land plants (1)
... two sporangia between Cooksonia-chaff on the photo. Cooksonia has become extinct in the Early Devonian. Baragwanathia A plant, almost as old as Cooksonia, is Baragwanathia longifolia. There has been a ... several aspects. Fossils of Nematothallus have been found in formations from the Middle Silurian up to and including the Early Devonian. In Great-Britain they are found in several places. A second ...
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Myriapoda from Scotland
... fern Tempskya Palm wood Links Eight fossils Myriapods from the Lower Devonian of Scotland Myriapods are among the oldest land animals. They are ... were real land animals in all cases. From the Lower and Middle Silurian some myriopod fossils have been described, e.g.the ... around Forfar, north of Dundee. These fossils date from the lowermost Devonian (Gedinnian) and are of about the same age as the Rhynie ...
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Conifer wood
... the finds of petrified wood belong to this group. Examples are the wood of the Devonian tree Archaeopteris, the Palaeozoic wood Dadoxylon, het Mesozoic wood Araucarioxylon and the wood of the ... pits. Such a bordered pit is a small circular area with a hole in the middle. Through this the water can move from one cell to another. From the cambium rays ...
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Hans' Paleobotany Pages
... eye are about 425 million years old, from the Middle Silurian. From this time on the plants spread over ... Cretaceous! Use the index! CONTENTS Silurian - present Silurian Devonian Silurian/Devonian Silurian/Devonian Silurian/Devonian Silurian/Devonian Devonian Devonian Devonian Devonian Carboniferous* Carboniferous* Carboniferous* Carboniferous* Carboniferous* Carboniferous*/Permian Carboniferous* ...
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Prototaxites: a fungus?
... hyphae of Prototaxites again are much thicker than those in living fungi. Click on the middle photo below to see skeletal and binding hyphae of Fomes fometarius. Fomes fometarius on a ... . Prototaxites must have been by far the greatest element in the landscape of the Early Devonian. Plants did not grow taller than around 50 cm at the time and stems did ...
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