Brief History of the Gymnosperms: Classification, Biodiversity, Phytogeography and EcologyThis book offers a global synthesis of gymnosperm families, fossil and extant, providing a new and distinctive perspective on the macroevolutionary biodiversity trends within this group through their 375 million-year history. The stratigraphic ranges of the 84 gymnosperm families are plotted according to their first and last appearances in the fossil record. Also included is a systematic coverage of floral kingdoms, biodiversity patterns, insect associations and other fields, traced period by period from the Devonian to Quaternary. |
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The extant seed plants | 4 |
Reference wholeplant genera | 92 |
OTTOKARIOPSIDA And And class | 161 |
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Abundance Affiliations Anderson angiosperms Araucariaceae Archangelsky Argentina Bennettitales biodiversity bracts Carboniferous Carnian Caytonia Chart China Chinle Fm cladistic classes classification Cleal conifers Crane cupules cuticle Cycadales Cycadopsida Devonian Diagnosis Dicroidium diversity Doweld Early Cretaceous Ecology Habit emend Eocene Euramerica extant extinction families Female floras Florin foliage forest fossil Frequency/ubiquity genera genera-nil Ginkgo Ginkgoales Ginkgoopsida global glossopterid Gnetales GNETOPSIDA Gondw Gondwana Gondwana Triassic Grade gymnosperms gynoecia Habitat Harris indivs insects Jurassic Karoo Basin Konijnenburg-Van Cittert Krassilov Labandeira Late Triassic Laurasia leaf localities Longevity Male megasporophylls Meyen Molteno Molteno Fm morphology Mundry Mut.occ Norian orders ovulate Ovulate cones ovulate organs ovuliferous Paleocene Peltaspermales Permian phylogeny Pinaceae Pinopsida plants Podocarpaceae pollen pollen organs Prominence colonisation success radiation Range rare Reference whole-plant genus scales seed shoots South Africa species Sphenobaiera sporophyll stem Stewart & Rothwell Stratum strobili taxa Tr(CRN Trias Zhou