UID:
almahu_9949697957602882
Format:
1 online resource (4313 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-282-28721-4
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9786612287213
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0-08-055783-X
Content:
This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae. It begins with a discussion of geologic time, how organisms are preserved in the rock record, and how organisms are studied and interpreted and takes the student through all the relevant uses and interpretations of fossil plants. With new chapters on additional flowering plant families, paleoecology and the structure of ancient plant communities, fossil plants as proxy records for paleoclimate, new methodologies used in phylogenetic reconstruction and the addition of ne
Note:
"Although this book is not technically a second edition, it does include material from The biology and evolution of fossil plants by Thomas N. Taylor and Edith L. Taylor (1993)"--P. xv.
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Brief Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1. Introduction to Paleobotany, How Fossil Plants are Formed; What is Paleobotany?; The Objectives of Paleobotany; Preservation: How Plant Fossils are Formed and Preserved; Palynology; Absolute Dating; Geologic Timescale; Biological Correlation; Systematics and Classification; Background Reading; Chapter 2. Precambrian Life; The Origin of Life on Earth; Earliest Record of Life on Earth; Mesoarchean-Neoarchean Life; Conclusions: Archean Life; Oxygenation of The Earth (2.45-2.2 Ga); Proterozoic Life
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ConclusionsChapter 3. Fungi, Bacteria, and Lichens; Fungi; Eubacteria and archaea; Lichens; Chapter 4. Algae; Chlorophyta (Green Algae); Euglenophyta; Dinophyta (Dinoflagellates); Heterokontophyta; Prymnesiophyta (Haptophytes); Rhodophyta (Red Algae); Acritarcha (Acritarchs); Chapter 5. Hornworts and Bryophytes; Early Fossil Evidence; Anthocerotophyta (Hornworts); Bryophyta (Bryophytes); Chapter 6. The move to the land; Enigmatic organisms; Isolated fragments: clues to the transition to land?; Land plant ancestors; The transition to land; Conclusion
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Chapter 7. Introduction to Vascular Plant Morphology and AnatomyPlant Organography; Cell Types; Plant Tissues and Primary Growth; Anatomy of Stems and Roots; Leaf Morphology and Anatomy; Further Reading; Chapter 8. Early Land Plants with Conducting Tissue; Conducting Elements in Early Land Plants; History of Discovery; Rhyniophytes; Zosterophyllophytes; Trimerophytes; Early Land Plant Evolution; Chapter 9. Lycophyta; Evolution of the microphyll; Drepanophycales; Protolepidodendrales; Lepidodendrales; Lycopodiales; Selaginellales; Pleuromeiales; Isoetales; Putative lycopsids; Conclusions
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Chapter 10. SphenophytesPseudoborniales; Sphenophyllales; Equisetales; Sphenophyte Evolution; Chapter 11. Ferns and Early Fernlike Plants; Evolution of the Megaphyll; Cladoxylopsida; Early Fernlike Plants; Marattiales; Ophioglossales; Leptosporangiate Ferns; Salviniales; Conclusions; Chapter 12. Progymnosperms; Archaeopteridales; Aneurophytales; Protopityales; Noeggerathians; Progymnosperm evolution; Chapter 13. Origin and Evolution of The Seed Habit; Homospory, Heterospory, and the Seed Habit; Cupulate Devonian Seeds; Carboniferous Seeds; Chapter 14. Paleozoic Seed Ferns; Calamopityales
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ButeoxylonalesLyginopteridales; Medullosales; Callistophytales; Glossopteridales; Chapter 15. Mesozoic seed ferns; Caytoniales; Corystospermales; Petriellales; Peltaspermales; Conclusions; Chapter 16. Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Foliage; Late Paleozoic Foliage; Chapter 17. Cycadophytes; Cycadales; Bennettitales; Chapter 18. Ginkgophytes; Paleozoic record; Ginkgophyte wood; Ginkgophyte foliage; Pollen-producing structures; Ginkgophyte plants; Taxa with uncertain affinities; Conclusions; Chapter 19. Gymnosperms with obscure affinities; Gigantopteridales; Vojnovskyales; Czekanowskiales
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Iraniales
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-373972-1
Language:
English
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