middle jurassic (bajocian-bathonian) sphenophyta fossils of the silicified level peats of the pabdana coal mine (kerman) recovered. four new species of sphenophyta described for the first time. they include equisetites pabdanaii sp. nov., equisetites sparseii sp. nov., equisetites hojedkii sp. nov. and equisetites irregularii sp. nov.,. descriptions of the above mentioned new species has been d...

Developing a detailed estimate of plant phylogeny is the key first step toward a more sophisticated and particularized understanding of plant evolution. At many levels in the hierarchy of plant life, it will be impossible to develop an adequate understanding of plant phylogeny without taking into account the additional diversity provided by fossil plants. This is especially the case for relativ...

The Clarno formation was originally described by Merriam (1901) from outcrops at Mitchell and Clarno's Ferry, Oregon. Since that time the formation has been found to be very widely distributed throughout central Oregon (Wilkinson, 1959). It is composed of an unknown thickness of volcanic rocks and interfingering terrestrial sediments which contain a newly discovered vertebrate fauna and an abun...

—Because of the fragmentary preservation of the earliest Cooksonia-like terrestrial plant macrofossils, younger Devonian fossils with complete anatomical preservation and documented gametophytes often have received greater attention concerning the early evolution of vascular plants and the alternation of generations. Despite preservational deficits, however, possible physiologies of Cooksonia-l...

Paleontology yields essential evidence for inferring not only the pattern of evolution, but also the genetic basis of evolution within an ontogenetic framework. Plant fossils provide evidence for the pattern of plant evolution in the form of transformational series of structure through time. Developmentally diagnostic structural features that serve as "fingerprints" of regulatory genetic pathwa...