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Investigating Teliospore Germination Using Microrespiration Analysis and Microdissection
Published on: May 13, 2018
Miospore evolution from the Ordovician to the Silurian
1Services de Paléobotanique, Paléopalynologie et de Micropaléontologie, Université de Liège, Allée du six Août, Bât. B-18, Parking 40, B-4000 1, Liège, Belgium
Abstract:
The definition of the term cryptospore is amended to include only spores thought to be produced by embryophytes and to exclude all enigmatic palynomorphs. Cryptospores are included here in the miospore group.The oldest published assemblage of typical cryptospores is Llanvirn in age. The evolution of cryptospore assemblages is very slow from the Llanvirn to the early Llandovery. The Telychian and Sheinwoodian stages are periods of drastic impoverishment in cryptospore biodiversity, followed by an important modification in miospore assemblages. This step in the evolution of the vegetation is correlated with the rapid transgression of seas on the continent during the early Llandovery. On the other hand, the Hirnantian glaciation does not affect diversity of the miospore assemblages.
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