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Author(s): Christopher J. Cleal, Barry A. Thomas

ISBN(s): 9781108483445, 9781108650021, 1108483445, 1108650023, 2018061723

Edition: 2

File Details: PDF, 30.65 MB

Year: 2019

Language: English

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Introduction to Plant Fossils

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also crucially offers non-specialists a practical guide to studying, dealing with and interpreting plant fossils. It shows how various techniques can be used to reveal the secrets of plant fossils and how to identify common types, such as compressions and impressions. Incorporating the concepts of evolutionary floras, this second edition includes revised data on all main plant groups, the latest approaches to naming plant fossils using fossil-taxa and techniques such as tomography. With extensive illustrations of plant fossils and living plants, the book encourages readers to think of fossils as once-living organisms. It is written for students on introductory or intermediate courses in palaeobotany, palaeontology, plant evolutionary biology and plant science, and for amateurs interested in studying plant fossils.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
What is a plant?
How do plant fragments get into the fossil record?
Types of plant fossil
Where are plant fossils found?
Bias in the fossil record
Why do we study plant fossils?
Recommended reading
Chapter 2 Highlights of palaeobotanical study
The beginnings of palaeobotany
The importance of coal
Anatomical studies
Coal balls
Coal petrology and palynology
The Glossopteris flora and continental drift
Early land plants
The age of cycads
Flowering plants
The future for palaeobotany
Recommended reading
Chapter 3 Studying plant fossils
Morphology of adpressions
Macrophotography
Transfers
Cuticles and epidermal structures
Extracting in situ pollen and spores
Dispersed pollen and spores
Three-dimensionally preserved plant fossils
Prepared casts
Tomography
Sectioning anatomically preserved fossils
Mathematical techniques
Naming plant fossils
Reconstructing whole fossil plants
Phylogenetic analysis
Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography
Curation
Site conservation
Recommended reading
Chapter 4 Early land plants
Alternating generations
Adapting to life on land
Cryptospores and the earliest land plants
The first vascular plants
The Rhynie Chert flora
Zosterophylls
Trimerophytes
Progymnosperms
Recommended reading
Chapter 5 Lycophytes
The earliest herbaceous lycophytes
The beginnings of modern herbaceous lycophytes
Increase in size and arborescence
Cuticles and paper coal
Rooting structures
Reproduction
Lycophyte palaeoecology in the Coal Measures swamps
After the giants
Recommended reading
Chapter 6 Sphenophytes
Origin and systematic position of the sphenophytes
Pseudoborniales
Sphenophyllales
Archaeocalamitaceae
Calamostachyaceae
Gondwana sphenophytes
Modern sphenophytes
Recommended reading
Chapter 7 Ferns
The first ferns
Modern ferns
Marattiales
Other Late Palaeozoic ferns
Ophioglossales
Filicalean ferns
Osmundaceae
Schizaeaceae
Gleicheniaceae
Matoniaceae
Dipteridaceae
Color plates
Dicksoniaceae and Cyatheaceae
Polypodiaceous ferns
Tempskya
Heterosporous ferns
Recommended reading
Chapter 8 Early gymnosperms
What are ovules and seeds?
Gymnosperm reproduction
What plants did gymnosperms evolve from?
The pteridosperms
Lyginopteridales
Medullosales
Callistophytales
Peltasperms
Glossopterids
Cordaites
Recommended reading
Chapter 9 Modern gymnosperms
Early conifers
Modern conifers
Ginkgoales
Cycads
Bennettitales
Caytoniales
Other gymnosperm groups
Gnetales
Recommended reading
Chapter 10 Angiosperms
What makes an angiosperm?
Wood
Ancestors of the angiosperms
The earliest angiosperms
Cretaceous angiosperms
Wind-pollinated angiosperms
The rise of the monocotyledons
Cenozoic angiosperms
Recommended reading
Chapter 11 The history of land vegetation
Evolutionary floras
Rhyniophytic Evolutionary Flora
Eophytic Evolutionary Flora
Palaeophytic Evolutionary Flora
Mesophytic Evolutionary Flora
Cenophytic Evolutionary Flora
Plants – the great survivors
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