The Lower Devonian Rhynie chert is one of the most important rock deposits yielding
comprehensive information on early continental plant, animal and microbial life. Fungi are …

Highlights•The earliest records of associations between filamentous microorganisms and
plants date back to 407 million-years.•The role of Cyanobacteria in early terrestrial …

Aberdeenshire, Scotland contains a remarkable biota of early terrestrial and freshwater
environments. The communities of embryophyte plants, algae, fungi, arthropods and other …

The Rhynie chert has provided a wealth of information on Early Devonian non-marine
aquatic and terrestrial life. However, our understanding of the microbial biodiversity in this …

Microbial mats are common as fossils in the aquatic facies of the Lower Devonian Rhynie
and Windyfield cherts. The framework-builder of these structures was most often a …

As a large majority of modern green algae are freshwater rather than marine, it can be
hypothesized that algae were an important component of early terrestrial environments …

An assemblage of unusual microfossils occurs within an accumulation of plant debris,
hyphae, and various types of propagules in the Early Devonian Rhynie chert. Specimens …

Microbial mats in the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert represent diverse communities of
organisms, which probably not only co-occurred in these structures, but also variously …

Small inclusions of clear chert within silicified substrate from the Lower Devonian Rhynie
and Windyfield localities in Scotland contain several different types of microbial fossils. The …

Premise of research. Microbial mats in the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert comprise
diverse communities of organisms; however, little information on the various life forms that …