[HTML][HTML] Devonian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

W Qie, X Ma, H Xu, L Qiao, K Liang, W Guo… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) for the bases of all
seven international Devonian stages have been formally defined and ratified by IUGS till …

[HTML][HTML] Frenguellia (Lycopsida) from the uppermost Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China, and its implications on …

BC Liu, K Wang, RW Zong, J Bai, N Yang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protolepidodendralean lycopsids are characteristic of morphologically complex leaves. Most
taxa of this group are herbaceous and widely distributed in global Devonian sediments, with …

Devonian spores from an intra-oceanic volcanic arc, West Junggar (Xinjiang, China) and the palaeogeographical significance of the associated fossil plant beds

HH Xu, JEA Marshall, Y Wang, HC Zhu… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2014 - Elsevier
Devonian spores were systematically studied from four sections (251 Hill, G217 Highway,
Hujiersite and Gannaren) in West Junggar, North Xinjiang, China. All four sections belong …

A new homosporous, arborescent lycopsid from the Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, Northwest China

HHE XU, YI Wang, QI Wang - Palaeontology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A new arborescent lycopsid, Hoxtolgaya robusta gen. et sp. nov., is described from the
Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, Northwest China. It has stems up to 90 mm wide with fusiform …

Age constraint for an earliest Famennian forest and its implications for Frasnian-Famennian boundary in West Junggar, Northwest China

D Zheng, SC Chang, T Algeo, H Zhang, B Wang… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
As one of the five major extinction events in Earth history, the Frasnian-Famennian boundary
(FFB) crisis caused dramatic reductions in marine and terrestrial diversity. The effects of this …

Sporangial Morphology of the Early Devonian Zosterophyll Sawdonia ornata from the Type Locality (Gaspé)

PG Gensel, CM Berry - International Journal of Plant …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. Despite being an iconic and recognizable zosterophyll from the Early
Devonian, sporangia of Sawdonia ornata are not known in any detail from the type locality …

A new Late Devonian plant assemblage in West Junggar, Xinjiang, China and its floral evolution during the Devonian

BC Liu, K Wang, RW Zong, J Bai, Y Wang… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Mid to Late Devonian witnessed the emergence of the first forest and global flora
prosperity on the Earth. West Junggar, a distinct sub-terrain of the Kazakhstan Paleoblock, in …

Diversity patterns of the vascular plant group Zosterophyllopsida in relation to Devonian paleogeography

B Cascales-Miñana, B Meyer-Berthaud - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Zosterophyllopsida originated in the Silurian and became prominent vascular
components of Early Devonian floras worldwide. An updated dataset of zosterophyllopsids …

Report of Drepanophycus Göppert (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, China

HH Xu, J Feng, Q Jiang, Y Wang - Journal of Systematics and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The herbaceous lycopsid Drepanophycus minor sp. nov. is described from the late Mid
Devonian Hujiersite Formation of Xinjiang, Northwest China. The new species is …

Geochronologic age constraints on the Middle Devonian Hujiersite flora of Xinjiang, NW China

D Zheng, H Xu, J Wang, C Feng, H Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Hujiersite Formation of West Junggar, Xinjiang contain fossil plants that
represent significant examples of Middle Devonian flora in North China. However, previous …