The origin of trees by the mid-Devonian epoch (398–385 million years ago) signals a major
change in terrestrial ecosystems with potential long-term consequences including increased …

Abstract The Middle to early Late Devonian transition from diminutive plants to the first
forests is a key episode in terrestrialization. The two major plant groups currently recognized …

Lycophytes, comprising the groups historically known as the lycopsids and zosterophylls,
have the longest history of any group of vascular land plants. The early evolution of the …

Abstract Comparison of the duration, onset conditions, and biotic response to the four
Phanerozoic glaciations suggests that there are two Phanerozoic glacial modes. Late …

Plant rhizome, plant root, and animal traces are abundant in paleosols (fossil soils)
preserved in Paleozoic terrigenous successions within the Appalachian Basin. This …

Plant fossils are described from the Cuche Formation, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia in the
area of Floresta. Those identified as Colpodexylon cf. deatsii Banks and cf. Archaeopteris …

Protolepidodendralean lycopsids are characteristic of morphologically complex leaves. Most
taxa of this group are herbaceous and widely distributed in global Devonian sediments, with …

A new Devonian fossil fish fauna from the region of Caño Colorado between the Rio Palmar
and Rio Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela, comes from two localities and several horizons …

For over 150 years, the mid-Devonian Eospermatopteris stump cast localities comprising the
“oldest known petrified forest” of Goldring (1927) at Gilboa, New York have rarely been …

The study of a Late Devonian arborescent lycopsid, Sublepidodendron songziense Chen
1977, from the Hsiehchingssu (Xiejingsi) Formation of Hubei Province and the Wutung …