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050 0 4 _aQE905
_b.S73 1993
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100 1 _aStewart, Wilson N.
_q(Wilson Nichols),
_d1917-
_996420
_eaut
245 1 0 _aPaleobotany and the evolution of plants /
_cWilson N. Stewart, Gar W. Rothwell.
250 _a2nd ed.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1993.
300 _axii, 521 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreface
_tPreface to First Edition
_t1. Introduction
_t2. Plant fossils: preservation, preparation and age determination
_t3. The fossil record: systematics, reconstruction and nomenclature
_t4. Life in the Precambian
_t5. Diversification of the Fungi
_t6. Diversification among the algae and related plants
_t7. How the land turned green: speculation
_t8. How the land turned green: Bryophyta
_t9. How the land turned green: vascular plants, primitive types
_t10. The evolution of microphylls and adaxial sporangia
_t11. The isoetalean clade
_t12. Paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian coal swamps
_t13. More diversity in the Devonian: Trimerophytopsida
_t14. The origin of the Sphenopsida
_t15. Unique and extinct: the Upper Paleozoic sphenophylls
_t16. The origin of the horsetails
_t17. Putative ferns of the Paleozoic
_t18. The emergence of the Marattiales and Ophioglossales
_t19. Filicales of the Carboniferousv20. The emergence of the modern Filicales, Salviniales and Marsileales
_t21. Free-sporing plants with gymnospermous secondary wood
_t22. Gymnosperm reproduction: early evolution
_t23. Paleozoic gymnosperms with fernlike leaves
_t24. Cycads: origins and relationships
_t25. The enigmatic cycadeoids
_t26. More innovation and diversification among gymnosperms
_t27. The record of a living fossil: Ginkgo
_t28. The first coniferophytes
_t29. The diversification of conifers and taxads
_t30. The origin and early evolution of angiosperms
_t31. Angiosperms: diversification, radiation, and modernization
_t32. Major evolutionary events and trends: in retrospect
_tIndex.
650 0 _aPaleobotany
_9104264
650 0 _aPlants
_xEvolution
_9103402
650 0 _aPaleoecology
_9104265
700 1 _aRothwell, Gar W.
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_eaut
710 2 _972911
_aCambridge University Press.
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