Key sources of information on the nature of early terrestrial ecosystems are the fossilized
remains of plants and associated organic encrustations, which are interpreted as either …

Remarkable preservation in coalified and pennineralized fossils from Upper Silurian and
Lower Devonian sediments deposited some 420 to 390 million years ago provides insight …

A Lagerstätte of fragmentary charcoalified plants from a siltstone horizon in the Welsh
Borderland, UK, provides remarkable insights into Early Devonian vegetation, in the form of …

The discovery of land plant spores with permanent tetrad and dyad configurations in Middle
Ordovician rocks indicated a pioneering phase of phytoterrestrialisation that predated trilete …

Elongate cells presumed to comprise water-conducting tissues are described from the
central regions of short lengths of two naked, stomatiferous, coalified, axial fossils from …

This chapter is primarily concerned with the documentation of the record of land plants from
their earliest occurrences in the Ordovician to the end of the Lochkovian in the Lower …

The megafossil record of early land plants is dominated by tracheophytes. The producers of
the microfossils which extend much further back in the Palaeozoic remain conjectural …

Anatomical screening using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of short lengths of smooth
coalified axes (mesofossils) from a Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) locality in the Welsh …

Recently discovered Silurian and Devonian coalified mesofossils provide an additional
source of data on early embryophytes. Those reviewed in this paper are considered of some …

We summarize the current information on gametophytic plants from the Lower Devonian that
are represented by three types based on permineralizations in the Rhynie Chert, two of …