Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

D Edwards, JL Morris, JB Richardson… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Cryptospores, recovered from Ordovician through Devonian rocks, differ from trilete spores
in possessing distinctive configurations (ie hilate monads, dyads, and permanent tetrads) …

The colonization of drylands by early vascular plants: Evidence from Early Devonian fossil soils and in situ plant traces from South China

J Xue, J Wang, P Huang, L Liu, T Huang, L Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mid-Paleozoic colonization of land by plants induced profound changes in the Earth's
surface environments. However, it remains poorly understood how the earliest vascular …

Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge

MR Gibling, NS Davies, HJ Falcon-Lang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - Elsevier
As vegetation evolved during the Palaeozoic Era, terrestrial landscapes were substantially
transformed, especially during the∼ 120 million year interval from the Devonian through the …

Belowground rhizomes in paleosols: The hidden half of an Early Devonian vascular plant

J Xue, Z Deng, P Huang, K Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The colonization of terrestrial environments by rooted vascular plants had far-reaching
impacts on the Earth system. However, the belowground structures of early vascular plants …

Precambrian aeolian systems: A unique record?

GIE Cosgrove, L Colombera, NP Mountney… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Precambrian is associated with a set of geologically unique palaeoenvironmental
conditions arising from differences in the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere …

Dynamics of Silurian plants as response to climate changes

J Pšenička, J Bek, J Frýda, V Žárský, M Uhlířová… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
The most ancient macroscopic plants fossils are Early Silurian cooksonioid sporophytes
from the volcanic islands of the peri-Gondwanan palaeoregion (the Barrandian area, Prague …

Comparative palynomorphological study of the genus Symphoricarpos (Caprifoliaceae): exine sculpture and implications for evolution

ZM Tsymbalyuk, S Çelenk, CD Bell, LM Nitsenko… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recent molecular phylogenetic studies of Dipsacales place Symphoricarpos in a clade
containing Leycesteria, Triosteum, and Lonicera. The aim of this research was to analyze …

Early Silurian (mid-Sheinwoodian) palynomorphs from the Loděnice-Špičatý vrch, Prague Basin, Czech Republic.

J BEK, P ŠTORCH, P Tonarova… - Bulletin of …, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
Dispersed spores, cryptospores, scolecodonts, acritarchs, prasinophytes and chitinozoans,
dated by graptolites as being middle Sheinwoodian (early Wenlock, ca 432 Ma), are …

An analysis of vegetational change in the Lower Devonian: new data from the Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland, UK

JL Morris, D Edwards - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2014 - Elsevier
A recently excavated field near the hamlet of Craswall in Herefordshire, south of Hay-on-
Wye, has yielded abundant fossil plants. They are preserved in sandstone and siltstone …

Sedimentology and ichnology of the Xiaxishancun Formation of Qujing, Yunnan: Earliest Devonian marginal-marine environments and ecosystems in South China

JS Wang, LJ Zhang, P Huang, L Liu, JZ Xue - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Silurian–Devonian transition experienced dramatic changes of climates, global
carbon cycles and faunas, but detailed documentation of the environments and biotas …