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Preface to first edition
1. Introduction
2. Plant fossils: preservation, preparation, and age determination
3. Fossil record: systematics, reconstruction, and nomenclature
4. Life in the Precambrian
5. Diversification of the fungi
6. Diversification among the algae and related plants
7. How the land turned green: speculation
8. How the land turned green: Bryophyta
9. How the land turned green: vascular plants, primitive types
10. Evolution of microphylls and adaxial sporangia
11. Isoetalean clade
12. Paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian coal swamps
13. More diversity in the Devonian: the Trimerophytopsida
14. Origin of the Sphenopsida
15. Unique and extinct: the Upper Paleozoic sphenophylls
16. Origin of the horsetails
17. Putative ferns of the Paleozoic
18. Emergence of the Marattiales and Ophioglossales
19. Filicales of the Carboniferous
20. Emergence of the modern Filicales, Salviniales, and Marsileales
21. Free-sporing plants with gymnospermous secondary wood
22. Gymnosperm reproduction: early evolution
23. Paleozoic gymnosperms with fernlike leaves
24. Cycads: origins and relationships
25. Enigmatic cycadeoids
26. More innovation and diversification among gymnosperms
27. Record of a living fossil: Ginkgo
28. First coniferophytes
29. Diversification of conifers and taxads
30. Origin and early evolution of angiosperms
31. Angiosperms: diversification, radiation, and modernization
32. Major evolutionary events and trends
in retrospect.
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Refinar búsquedaPaleobotany and the Evolution of Plants / Cambridge : University of Cambridge (1993)
