During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

In accretionary orogeny, the intra-oceanic subduction-accretion could generate juvenile
continental crustal materials and form new continental blocks by their lateral tectonic …

The fossil record provides an invaluable insight into the temporal origins of extant lineages
of organisms. However, establishing the relationships between fossils and extant lineages …

Devonian cutinitic liptobiolith is a special cuticle-rich coal formed during the early stage of
land plant evolution. In China, this special coal has previously only been reported in the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Simple Summary The lycopsid Sublepidodendron is cosmopolitan in the Late Devonian and
Early Carboniferous. Sublepidodendron grabaui is known from several localities of the …

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 …

Aneurophyton doui sp. nov.(Aneurophytales, Progymnospermopsida) is described from the
late Middle Devonian Hujiersite Formation of Hoxtolgay, Xinjiang, northwest China, as a …