The biology and evolution of fossil plants

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The biology and evolution of fossil plants

Thomas N. Taylor and Edith L. Taylor

Prentice Hall, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 855-939) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This comprehensive text on plant biology deals with the structure, biology and evolution of fossil plants, cyanobacteria, fungi and plant/animal interactions. Global in its perspective, there are plants from every continent, including Antarctica. Major biotic events, such as the evolution of photosynthesis, origin of eukaryotic cells and origin of flowering plants, are discussed in detail.

Table of Contents

  • Precambrian life
  • fungi, bacteria and lichens
  • algae
  • bryophytes
  • terrestrialization of the land
  • the structure and organization of vascular plants
  • early land plants with conducting tissue
  • lycopods
  • sphenophytes
  • ferns
  • progymnosperms
  • origin and evolution of the seed habit
  • palaeozoic seed ferns
  • mesozoic seed ferns
  • palaeozoic and mesozoic foliage
  • cycadophytes
  • ginkgophytes
  • gymnsoperms with obscure affinities
  • cordaites
  • conifers
  • flowering plants
  • plant/animal interactions.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA19041404
  • ISBN
    • 0136515894
  • LCCN
    92021673
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxii, 982 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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