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Fundamentals of Palaeobotany

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Fundamentals of Palaeobotany

[Book]

by Sergei V. Meyen.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1987

1. Preservation types and techniques of study of fossil plants --; 2. Principles of typology and of nomenclature of fossil plants --; Parataxa and eutaxa --; Taxa and characters --; Peculiarity of the taxonomy and nomenclature of fossil plants --; The binary (dual) system of fossil plants --; The reasons for the inflation of generic names --; The species problem in palaeobotany --; The polytypic concept of the species --; Assemblage-genera and assemblage-species --; The cladistic methods --; 3. Fossil plants systematics --; I. Prokaryotes --; II. Eukaryotes --; Higher Plants --; 4. Palaeopalynology --; Certain conceptions and terms --; Taxonomy of dispersed miospores --; Correlations between miospore parataxa and eutaxa --; Morphological evolution of miospores --; Dispersed megaspores --; 5. Epidermal-cuticular studies --; Pertinent characters used in ECS --; Systematic significance of the characters --; Evolution of the epidermal-cuticular characters --; Classification of dispersed cuticles --; 6. Plant palaeoecology --; 7. Palaeofloristics --; History of floras --; The rise of land vegetation --; Silurian-Devonian floras --; Carboniferous and Permian floras --; Transition from Palaeophyte to Mesophyte --; Triassic floras --; Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous floras --; Transition from Mesophyte to Cenophyte. Upper Cretaceous floras --; Cainozoic floras (by M.A. Akhmetyev) --; Salient features of the Cainozoic palaeofloristics. Major phytochoria --; Major features of florogeny --; 8. Relationship between palaeobotany and other fields of natural history --; Stratigraphy --; Lithology --; Palaeoclimatology --; Tectonics and plate movement --; Palaeobotany and the theory of evolution --; Palaeobotany and plant morphology --; References.

There have been at least ten English-language textbooks of palaeobotany since D.H. Scott published the first edition of Studies inFossilBotany in 1900. Most have been written by scientists who were primarily botanists by training, and were aimed largely at a readership familiar with living plants. They tended to follow a general pattern of an introductory chapter on preservation of plants as fossils, followed by a systematic treatment, group by group. Only Seward in his Plant Life Through the Ages departed from this pattern in presenting a chronological sequence. In the present book, Meyen breaks with?is tradition. Although having a basically biological approach, he reaches out into all aspects of the history of plant life and the wider implication of its study. Only half of the present work deals sequentially with fossil plant groups, treated systematically. The remainder then explores those topics which most other textbooks have incidentally??e generally either ignored or have only mentioned rather problems of naming and classifying fragmentary plant fossils, their ecology; biogeography and palaeoclimatic significance and the contribution that?ey have made to the understanding of living plant morphology, and of the process of evolution.

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by Sergei V. Meyen.

Sergei V Meyen

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