The fossil recordand evolution of freshwater plants: a review

C Martín-Closas - Geologica Acta, 2003 - revistes.ub.edu
Palaeobotany applied to freshwater plants is an emerging field of palaeontology.
Hydrophytic plants reveal evolutionary trends of their own, clearly distinct from those of the …

Estuarine fish and tetrapod evolution: insights from a Late Devonian (Famennian) Gondwanan estuarine lake and a southern African Holocene equivalent

RW Gess, AK Whitfield - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Waterloo Farm lagerstätte in South Africa provides a uniquely well‐
preserved record of a Latest Devonian estuarine ecosystem. Ecological evidence from it is …

[图书][B] Els caròfits del Juràssic superior i el Cretaci inferior de la Península Ibèrica: Upper Jurassic and lower Cretaceous charophytes from the Iberian Peninsula

C Martin-Closas - 2000 - books.google.com
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A characean thallus with attached gyrogonites and associated fossil charophytes from the Maastrichtian of the eastern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain) 1

S Villalba‐Breva, C Martín‐Closas - Journal of Phycology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The new species Clavatoraxis microcharophorus is described from the Lower Maastrichtian
of the Eastern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain). Microchara sp. gyrogonites were found in …

The rooting system of Leptophloeum Dawson: new material from the upper Devonian, Famennian Witpoort formation of South Africa

C Prestianni, RW Gess - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The rhizomorphs of Early (Devonian and Early Carboniferous) arborescent
lycopsids are known from only a handful of taxa. That of Leptophloeum is previously …

Charophyte algae from the Rhynie chert

R Kelman, M Feist, NH Trewin, H Hass - Earth and Environmental …, 2003 - cambridge.org
The discovery of new specimens of Palaeonitella cranii (Kidston & Lang) Pia in the Early
Devonian Rhynie chert permits the classification of this charophyte alga. This relatively small …

High-latitude chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa

RW Gess, MI Coates - Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2015 - Springer
New material from the Late Devonian Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group, Cape
Supergroup) of Waterloo Farm (Grahamstown, South Africa) includes teeth, spines, and rare …

[HTML][HTML] Archaeopteris trees at high southern latitudes in the late Devonian

RW Gess, C Berry - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Devonian Period plants first reached forest stature, impacting chemical
weathering of rocks, fluvial systems, atmospheric composition and possibly aquatic …

The earliest record of terrestrial animals in Gondwana: a scorpion from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa: Arachnida

RW Gess - African Invertebrates, 2013 - journals.co.za
The new genus and species, Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis, are described in Scorpiones
incertae sedis on the basis of fragments from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Waterloo …

Oldest known naiaditid bivalve from the high-latitude Late Devonian (Famennian) of South Africa offers clues to survival strategies following the Hangenberg mass …

F Scholze, RW Gess - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
A phased mass extinction event (which culminated in the Hangenberg event) marked the
end of the Devonian period and had a significant impact on the palaeoecology and faunal …