Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants

Name: Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants
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ISBN: 9780521126083

ISBN-10: 0521126088

ISBN-13: 9780521126083

Edition: 2nd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Wilson N. Stewart, Gar W. Rothwell

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This 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 present understanding of the relationships between the major plant groups, extant and extinct.

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English



Preface


Preface to First Edition



Introduction



Plant fossils: preservation, preparation and age determination



The fossil record: systematics, reconstruction and nomenclature



Life in the Precambian



Diversification of the Fungi



Diversification among the algae and related plants



How the land turned green: speculation



How the land turned green: Bryophyta



How the land turned green: vascular plants, primitive types



The evolution of microphylls and adaxial sporangia



The isoetalean clade



Paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian coal swamps



More diversity in the Devonian: Trimerophytopsida



The origin of the Sphenopsida



Unique and extinct: the Upper Paleozoic sphenophylls



The origin of the horsetails



Putative ferns of the Paleozoic



The emergence of the Marattiales and Ophioglossales



Filicales of the Carboniferous



The emergence of the modern Filicales, Salviniales and Marsileales



Free-sporing plants with gymnospermous secondary wood



Gymnosperm reproduction: early evolution



Paleozoic gymnosperms with fernlike leaves



Cycads: origins and relationships



The enigmatic cycadeoids



More innovation and diversification among gymnosperms



The record of a living fossil: Ginkgo



The first coniferophytes



The diversification of conifers and taxads



The origin and early evolution of angiosperms



Angiosperms: diversification, radiation, and modernisation



Major evolutionary events and trends: in retrospect


Index