Late Palaeozoic plants

Zhuo Feng

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041

Late Palaeozoic plants

Curr Biol. 2017 Sep 11;27(17):R905-R909. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041.

Author

Zhuo Feng¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Deep Time Terrestrial Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China. Institute of Karst Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Guilin 541004, China. Electronic address: zhuofeng@ynu.edu.cn.

PMID: 28898663
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041

Abstract

Land plants are one of the major constituents of terrestrial ecosystems on Earth, and play an irreplaceable role in human activities today. If we are to understand the extant plants, it is imperative that we have some understanding of the fossil plants from the deep geological past, particularly those that occurred during their early evolutionary history, in the late Palaeozoic.

MeSH terms

Biological Evolution*
Embryophyta / anatomy & histology*
Embryophyta / physiology*
Fossils / anatomy & histology*