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Terrestrial Palaeoecology and Global Change

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Chapter 4. Palaeoecogeography<br />

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d<br />

Fig. 43. Scanning electron micrographs of cutinized thalloid plants from the Devonian cuticle coals: (a, e)<br />

Orestovia, compressed specimens (courtesy of A.R. Ananiev) <strong>and</strong> a stomata-like structure supposedly<br />

derived from a sex organ (Krassilov, 1981), (b, c) gametangial conceptacles in Shuguria, a morphologically<br />

similar alga-like form, (d) Bitellaria, b<strong>and</strong>s of hydroid-like fusiform cells traversing the cuticle (Krassilov et<br />

al., 1987a).<br />

e

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