DEVONIAN PLANTS

A simple type of wood in two Early Devonian plants.

The advent of wood (secondary xylem) is a major event of the Paleozoic Era, facilitating the evolution of large perennial plants. The first steps of wood evolution are unknown. We describe two small Early Devonian (407 to 397 million years ago) plants with secondary xylem including simple rays. Their wood currently represents the earliest evidence of secondary growth in plants. The small size o...

Some Fossil Plants of Early Devonian Type from the Walhalla

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Chemical Evidence for Cell Wall Lignification and the Evolution of Tracheids in Early Devonian Plants

New Plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China

Descriptions of Lower Devonian plants from Yunnan, South China, have revolutionized concepts of diversity and disparity in tracheophytes soon after they became established on land. Sichuan assemblages have received little attention since their discovery almost 25 years ago and require revision. With this objective, fieldwork involving detailed logging and collection of fossils was undertaken in...

Devonian plants from Colombia, with discussion of their geological and palaeogeographical context

Plant fossils are described from the Cuche Formation, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia in the area of Floresta. Those identified as Colpodexylon cf. deatsii Banks and cf. Archaeopteris sp. suggest an earliest Late Devonian (Frasnian) age for the formation. These or similar taxa are also found in contemporaneous deposits in western Venezuela, and other elements of the Venezuelan flora are found in a...