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Post by paleoflor on Feb 11, 2011 14:01:46 GMT -5
Primitive Devonian land plant from the Devonian (Fammenian) of Aywaille, Belgium. This plant could very well be a precursor of the ferns. It lacks leaves, but it has small hooks at the end of the branches. See also: www.devoniantimes.org/who/pages/rhacophyton.htmlEDIT: scale bar on picture = 1 cm Attachments:
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 11, 2011 14:37:57 GMT -5
Wow that is very Interesting Tim... even I have access to Devonian era.... plants are rare and a very seldom see examples. Thanks for posting... A+
Peter
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 11, 2011 20:56:13 GMT -5
Excellent stuff! I love the dichotomous branching in these early ones, but I've not come across anything with hooks on the ends of the branches. Possibly a climber growing in dense stands?
Back in the UK I grew up not far from South Wales, with the famous Senni Beds, but somehow never seemed to find the time to escape from the Silurian. I did go hunting Devonian plants on Arran, and found masses of fragments of things vaguely like this, but nothing with a convincing form to it, so I'm impressed.
p.s. We're not exclusively Palaeozoic - just dominantly! Nice Mesozoic plants are definitely welcome! ;-)
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