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Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plants derivations
Ordovician,Charophyceae,land plant,carbonate,Tarim,Ordos
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Lijing Liu / State Key Laboratory of Continental Evolution and Early Life, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Early life and Environment, Department of Geology, Northwest University
Jian Han / 西北大学
Zhifei Zhang / State Key Laboratory of Continental Evolution and Early Life, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Early life and Environment, Department of Geology, Northwest University
Qing Tang / 南京大学
Ke Pang / 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
Ruiyun Li / 西北大学
Yasheng Wu / Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
洪 华 / 西北大学
Bin Guo / 西北大学
Chunfang Cai / 中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所
Robert Riding / Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
The emergence of land plants was a pivotal development in Earth history. It has been postulated that the evolutionary transition from freshwater streptophyte algae to land plants, or canalization of plant meiosis, was completed during the Middle Ordovician (~460 Ma). However, the absence of undisputed streptophyte algal fossils (e.g., Charophyceae) earlier than late Silurian (~425 Ma) has obscured this link between streptophyte algae and land plants. Here we describe a marine Charophyceae fossil, Tarimochara miraclensis gen. et sp. nov., from early and middle Katian (Late Ordovician, ~453–449 Ma) marine limestones in northwestern China. This discovery demonstrates that at least some species of Charophyceae inhabited shallow normal marine environments at that time. Moreover, these early Charophyceae show that some key morphological innovations associated with an evolutionary transition between streptophyte algae and land plants had occurred prior to the early Katian. This provides crucial evidence relevant to land plant origins.



 
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    06月10日

    2025

    06月13日

    2025

  • 04月15日 2025

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National Natural Science Foundation of China
Geobiology Society
National Committee of Stratigraphy of China
Ministry of Science and Technology
Geological Society of China
Paleontological Society of China
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS
International Commission on Stratigraphy
International Paleontological Association
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State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences (CUG, Wuhan)
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