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Early vascular land plants: proof and conjecture

Gray, Jane ; Boucot, Arthur J.

Lethaia, 1977-04, Vol.10 (2), p.145-174 [Revista revisada por pares]

Oxford, UK: Scandinavian University Press

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  • Título:
    Early vascular land plants: proof and conjecture
  • Autor: Gray, Jane ; Boucot, Arthur J.
  • Es parte de: Lethaia, 1977-04, Vol.10 (2), p.145-174
  • Notas: 10.18261/let
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  • Descripción: Megafossil evidence does not fill the ‘evolutionary gap’ between land plants and their hypothetical green algal ancestors. Rare Late Silurian vascular plant megafossils provide little information about the morphological, physiological, biochemical, and ecological steps that preceded their evolution. Dissociated trilete spores, spore tetrads, cuticle‐ and tracheid‐like structures far exceed the abundance and diversity of Silurian vascular plant megafossils, and appear millions of years before them. In reference to whole‐bodied organisms, these or analogous structures belong to land plants or emergent aquatics; they may represent plants evolutionarily intermediate between green algae and descendent vascular plants at the bryophyte or pre‐bryophyte stages. Changes in the cellular biochemistry of pre‐Devonian land plants in response to the selective pressures of terrestrial life may have led to the origin of lignin and cutin, neither of which has any counterpart among the algae, and to the evolutionary surge of the vascular plants in the Early Devonian represented by the plant megafossil record. Positive correlation between abundance and diversity of trilete spores and shallow‐water, nearshore sites reinforces conclusions based on morphology that a terrestrial flora existed well prior to the appearance of vascular plant megafossils.
  • Editor: Oxford, UK: Scandinavian University Press
  • Idioma: Inglés;Noruego
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