Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil PlantsThis 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 new fossil plant discoveries since 1993, this book provides the most comprehensive account of the geologic history and evolution of microbes, algae, fungi, and plants through time.
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Contents
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5 Hornworts and Bryophytes | 161 |
6 The Move to the Land | 179 |
7 Introduction to Vascular Plant Morphology and Anatomy | 201 |
8 Early Land Plants with Conducting Tissue | 223 |
9 Lycophyta | 265 |
16 Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Foliage | 651 |
17 Cycadophytes | 703 |
18 Ginkgophytes | 743 |
19 Gymnosperms with Obscure Affinities | 757 |
20 Cordaitales | 787 |
21 Conifers | 805 |
22 Flowering Plants | 873 |
23 Interactions Between Plants and Animals | 999 |
10 Sphenophytes | 329 |
11 Ferns and Early Fernlike Plants | 383 |
12 Progymnosperms | 479 |
13 Origin and Evolution of the Seed Habit | 503 |
14 Paleozoic Seed Ferns | 529 |
15 Mesozoic Seed Ferns | 621 |
Classification of Organisms | 1027 |
Glossary | 1031 |
References | 1049 |
Index | 1199 |
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Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants Thomas N. Taylor,Edith L. Taylor,Michael Krings No preview available - 2009 |
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