Paleobotany and the evolution of plants
- Title
- Paleobotany and the evolution of plants / Wilson N. Stewart.
- Published by
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 405 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Subject
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.