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Plant Evolution

How plants evolved on Planet Earth

  • Welcome to Plant Evolution
  • Chapters
    • Chapter 1 – Earliest plant fossils
    • Chapter 2 – From sea to land
    • Chapter 3 – Early plant classification
    • Chapter 4 – Carboniferous swamp forests
    • Chapter 5 – Advance of the seed plants
    • Chapter 6 – Flowering plants appear
    • Chapter 7 – The last 65 million years
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Chapter 3 | Contents

  • The main plant groups
  • Early plant classification
  • Bryophyta
  • Pteridophyta
  • Welcome
  • Chapter 1 – Earliest plant fossils
    • Plant structure
    • Fossilization Processes
    • The earliest plant fossils
      • Stromatolites
      • Prokaryotes: bacteria and cyanobacteria
      • Eukaryotes
      • Fungi
    • Radioactive dating
    • Evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere
  • Chapter 2 – From sea to land
    • From sea to land
    • Plants on land
    • First primitive land plants
  • Chapter 3 – Early plant classification
    • The main plant groups
    • Early plant classification
    • Bryophyta
    • Pteridophyta
  • Chapter 4 – Carboniferous swamp forests
    • The Carboniferous swamp forests
    • Carboniferous plants
    • Spermatophyta
  • Chapter 5 – Advance of the seed plants
    • The advance of the seed plants
    • Gymnosperms and angiosperms
    • Clubmoss spores
    • More on Pteridosperms
      • Coniferopsida
  • Chapter 6 – Flowering plants appear
    • The flowering plants appear
    • Angiosperm features
    • Monocotyledons and dicotyledons
  • Chapter 7 – The last 65 million years
    • The last 65 million years
    • Human reliance on plants
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  • Glossary of palaeobotanic terms
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