Polish Palaeobotany: 750 Million Years of Plant History as Revealed in a Century of Studies. Palaeozoic Macrofossils

Abstract During the Palaeozoic Era, plants conquered land and covered greater areas from coastal lowlands to highlands. Palaeobotanical data based on macroremains Polish strata complete enrich picture of these processes. Knowledge about macrofloras developed significantly in last hundred years but is very unevenly distributed among successive geological periods. Ordovician Silurian macrofossils are single finds. Cores deep boreholes provided significant material for recognition Early Devonian plants. Carboniferous floras, especially coal measures, best known, as they most numerous taxa specimens. Permian floras rare. Based fossils, many new, evolutionarily important were proposed have entered world science.