Book ID: 122
Stewart, Wilson N. and Gar W. Rothwell
Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. 2nd ed. 1993. (Reprint 2010). figs. tabs. photogr. 672 p. gr8vo. Hard cover.
Contents: Preface/ Preface to first edition/ Introduction/ Plantfossils: preservation, preparation, and age determination/ The fossilrecord: systematics, reconstruction, and nomenclature/ Life in thePrecambrian/ Diversification of the fungi/ Diversification among thealgae and related plants/ How the land turned green: speculation/ Howthe land turned green: Bryophyta/ How the land turned green: vascularplants, primitive types/ The evolution of microphylls and adaxialsporangia/ The isoetalean clade/ Paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian coalswamps/ More diversity in the Devonian: the Trimerophytopsida/ Theorigin of the Sphenopsida/ Unique and extinct: the Upper Paleozoicsphenophylls/ The origin of the horsetail/ Putative ferns of thePaleozoic/ The emergence of the Marattiales and Ophioglossales/ Filicales of the Carboniferous/ The emergence of the modern Filicales,Salviniales, and Marsileales/ Free-sporing plants with gymnospermoussecondary wood/ Gymnosperm reproduction: early evolution/ Paleozoicgymnosperms with fernlike leaves/ Cycads: origins and relationships/ Theenigmatic cycadeoids/ More innovation and diversification amonggymnosperms/ The record of a living fossil: Ginkgo/ The firstconiferophytes/ The diversification of conifers and taxads/ The originand early evolution of angiosperms/ Angiosperms: diversification,radiation, and modernization/ Major evolutionary events and trends - inretrospect/ Index.