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Paleobotany and the evolution of plants

Title: Paleobotany and the evolution of plants / Wilson N. Stewart.
Author: Stewart, Wilson N. (Wilson Nichols), 1917-
Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.

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Description

x, 405 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Plant fossils: preservation, preparation, and age determination -- The fossil record: systematics, reconstruction, and nomenclature -- The Precambrian: an age of microorganisms with credentials -- Diversification of the Eumycota -- 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 -- Arborescent lycopods and evidence of reduction -- More diversity in the Devonian: the Trimerophytopsida -- The origin of the Sphenopsida -- Unique and extinct: the Upper Paleozoic sphenophylls -- The origin of the horsetails -- Cladoxylales: putative Devonian ferns -- The beginnings of ferns -- The emergence of Marattiales, Filicales, and Salviniales -- Free-sporing plants with gymnospermous wood -- Gymnosperm reproduction: early evolution -- Paleozoic gymnosperms with fernlike features -- Cycads and cycadeoids: origins and relationships -- More innovation and diversification of Mesozoic seed plants -- The record of a living fossil: Ginkgo -- The first coniferophytes -- The diversification of conifers and taxads -- The origin and early evolution of angiosperms -- Major evolutionary events and trends: a summary.

ISBN

0521233151
9780521233156

LCCN

82021986

OCLC

ocm08954135
8954135
SCSB-63891

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library