Paleobotany : the biology and evolution of fossil plants

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Paleobotany : the biology and evolution of fossil plants

by Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings

Elsevier Academic Press, c2009

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae. It begins with a discussion of geologic time, how organisms are preserved in the rock record, and how organisms are studied and interpreted and takes the student through all the relevant uses and interpretations of fossil plants. With new chapters on additional flowering plant families, paleoecology and the structure of ancient plant communities, fossil plants as proxy records for paleoclimate, new methodologies used in phylogenetic reconstruction and the addition of new fossil plant discoveries since 1993, this book provides the most comprehensive account of the geologic history and evolution of microbes, algae, fungi, and plants through time.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction to paleobotany, how plant fossils form
  • Precambrian life - fungi, bacteria, and lichens
  • Fungi
  • Algae
  • Bryophytes
  • The move to the land- introduction to vascular plant morphology and anatomy
  • Organography
  • Early land plants with conducting tissue
  • Lycophyta
  • Sphenophytes
  • Ferns and early fernlike plants
  • Progymnosperms
  • Paleozoic seed ferns
  • Mesozoic seed ferns
  • Paleozoic and mesozoic foliage
  • Cycadophytes
  • Ginkgophytes
  • Gymnosperms with obscure affinities
  • Cordaites
  • Conifers
  • Flowering plants
  • Interactions between plants and animals
  • Appendix 1 - classification of organisms
  • glossary
  • bibliography
  • index

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  • NCID
    BB00387874
  • ISBN
    • 9780123739728
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 1230 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
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