Characterizing new plant fossils with woody growth from the Battery Point Formation of Quebec (Canada)

ET Casselman - 2024 - digitalcommons.humboldt.edu
The oldest woody growth has been recognized in several Early Devonian (ca. 410-395 Ma)
euphyllophytes. Their taxonomic diversity is difficult to evaluate due to a lack of quantitative …

A new anatomically-preserved plant from the lower Devonian of Quebec (Canada): implications for Euphyllophyte phylogeny and early evolution of structural …

S Toledo - 2018 - digitalcommons.humboldt.edu
An abrupt transition in the fossil record between Early Devonian plants with simple structure
and structurally-complex later Devonian plants, has frustrated efforts to understand patterns …

Exploring the origins of secondary growth–two Lower Devonian (Emsian) euphyllophytes from Gaspé, Canada, and their implications for the evolution of secondary …

KC Pfeiler - 2020 - digitalcommons.humboldt.edu
Secondary growth from a vascular cambium has a deep fossil record among
euphyllophytes, with the earliest occurrence dated to 407 Ma. To date, Armoricaphyton and …

Taxon sampling and alternative hypotheses of relationships in the euphyllophyte plexus that gave rise to seed plants: insights from an Early Devonian radiatopsid

S Toledo, AC Bippus, BA Atkinson… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An abrupt transition in the fossil record separates Early Devonian euphyllophytes with a
simple structure from a broad diversity of structurally complex Middle–Late Devonian plants …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary changes in gymnosperm-type trees at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary: significance of the Gondwanan record of plants

AL DECOMBEIX - International Field Symposium “The Devonian and … - academia.edu
The Devonian-Carboniferous is a key period in the evolution of land vegetation. It
corresponds to the last stage of the terrestrialization process, when plants gradually came to …

An early origin of secondary growth: Franhueberia gerriennei gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Devonian of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada)

LA Hoffman, AMF Tomescu - American Journal of Botany, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the Study: Secondary xylem (wood) produced by a vascular cambium supports
increased plant size and underpins the most successful model of arborescence among …

An Early Devonian actinostelic euphyllophyte with secondary growth from the Emsian of Gaspé (Canada) and the importance of tracheid wall thickening patterns in …

KC Pfeiler, AMF Tomescu - Papers in Palaeontology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary growth is a tracheophyte structural feature whose earliest known occurrence
dates to the late Pragian–early Emsian. Armoricaphyton, Franhueberia and an unnamed …

Building detailed and accurate whole-plant concepts: A morphometrics-informed reconstruction of a zosterophyll from the lower Devonian of Wyoming

SR El-Abdallah - 2024 - digitalcommons.humboldt.edu
The fragmentary state of plant fossils and the modular organization of plants make whole-
plant reconstructions of fossil species desirable and feasible. Such reconstructions are key …

Transitional changes in arborescent lignophytes at the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary

AL Decombeix, B Meyer-Berthaud… - Journal of the …, 2011 - lyellcollection.org
It is usually considered that after the extinction of the Devonian tree Archaeopteri s, no new
arborescent lignophytes were established before the late Tournaisian. A reassessment of …

Structurally complex, yet anatomically plesiomorphic: permineralized plants from the Emsian of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada) expand the diversity of Early Devonian …

MA Bickner, AMF Tomescu - IAWA journal, 2019 - brill.com
ABSTRACT The Battery Point Formation of eastern Canada hosts an Emsian (c. 400–395
Ma) flora that marks one of the rare occurrences of anatomically-preserved Early Devonian …