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Baragwanathia is a genus of extinct lycopsid plants of Late Silurian to Early Devonian age (), fossils of which have been found in Australia, Canada, China and Czechia.The name derives from William Baragwanath who discovered the first specimens of the type species, Baragwanathia longifolia, at Thomson River (Victoria, Australia).
The zosterophylls are a group of extinct land plants that first appeared in the Silurian period. The taxon was first established by Banks in 1968 as the subdivision Zosterophyllophytina; they have since also been treated as the division Zosterophyllophyta or Zosterophyta and the class or plesion Zosterophyllopsida or Zosteropsida.
The Silurian (/ s ɪ ˈ lj ʊər i. ən, s aɪ-/ sih-LURE-ee-ən, sy-) [8] [9] [10] is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at 443.1 million years ago , to the beginning of the Devonian Period, 419.62 Mya. [11] The Silurian is the third and shortest period of the Paleozoic Era, and the ...
Cooksonia is an extinct group of primitive land plants, treated as a genus, although probably not monophyletic.The earliest Cooksonia date from the middle of the Silurian (the Wenlock epoch); [1] the group continued to be an important component of the flora until the end of the Early Devonian, a total time span of .
Artist interpretation of a Devonian swamp forest scene. Artwork by Eduard Riou from The World Before the Deluge 1872. The Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution, also known as the Devonian Plant Explosion (DePE) [1] and the Devonian explosion, was a period of rapid colonization, diversification and radiation of land plants and fungi on dry lands that occurred 428 to 359 million years ago ...