Plant evolution and terrestrialization during Palaeozoic times—The phylogenetic context

Gerrienne, Philippe; Servais, Thomas; Vecoli, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.01.004

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“…Gerrienne et al . ). The more plants diversified/increased their sizes on land to form forests, new terrestrial ecosystems developed with complex interactions among animals.…”

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The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) and end-Guadalupian (Middle Permian) mass-extinction events compared

Isozaki

Servais

2018

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The so‐called Big Five mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic include two prominent Palaeozoic episodes: the end‐Ordovician and end‐Permian events, both with large biodiversity loss. We consider that the end‐Ordovician (Hirnantian) extinction could be best compared to the Middle Permian end‐Guadalupian (=Capitanian) extinction, rather than to the end‐Permian (Permo‐Triassic boundary; PTB) extinction. The end‐Guadalupian extinction, ca. 8 Myr before the PTB extinction, occurred as an independent episode under extremely unique global setting with the lowest sea level and lowest Sr isotopic ratios in seawater of the Phanerozoic. Multiple similarities exist between the end‐Ordovician (Hirnantian) and the end‐Guadalupian (Capitanian) events, such as the preferential elimination of sessile biota in the tropics, a global sea‐level drop and secular changes in seawater C and Sr isotope ratios, occurring under global cooling. The limited development of land vegetation suggests that the Ordovician extinction was restricted solely to the marine realm, with no prominent damages on land, and no large igneous province (LIP) recognized in the Ordovician. The comparison indicates that the two extinctions of the Hirnantian and of the Capitanian have been essentially triggered by similar causes/processes; nonetheless, biotic responses were different, owing to the more oxygenated status of surface environments in the Permian after the mid‐Palaeozoic terrestrialization.

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“…Gerrienne et al . ). The more plants diversified/increased their sizes on land to form forests, new terrestrial ecosystems developed with complex interactions among animals.…”

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The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) and end-Guadalupian (Middle Permian) mass-extinction events compared

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2018

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“…The absence of these organ systems in fossil and living relatives of the earliest vascular plants and their progenitors has led to alternative interpretations of modular growth and left open questions about the nature of transitions in form occurring during evolution [8,15,20–25]. Many of the most ancient plant groups have a sparse fossil record [13,16], so we can only infer the sequence and nature of change underpinning the radiation of plant forms by comparing the characteristics of their living descendants. Phylogeny and evo-devo approaches to the evolution of plant form are starting to illuminate the nature of developmental and genetic change driving the radiation of form [15,18,21–25].…”

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Development and genetics in the evolution of land plant body plans

Harrison¹

2017

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The colonization of land by plants shaped the terrestrial biosphere, the geosphere and global climates. The nature of morphological and molecular innovation driving land plant evolution has been an enigma for over 200 years. Recent phylogenetic and palaeobotanical advances jointly demonstrate that land plants evolved from freshwater algae and pinpoint key morphological innovations in plant evolution. In the haploid gametophyte phase of the plant life cycle, these include the innovation of mulitcellular forms with apical growth and multiple growth axes. In the diploid phase of the life cycle, multicellular axial sporophytes were an early innovation priming subsequent diversification of indeterminate branched forms with leaves and roots. Reverse and forward genetic approaches in newly emerging model systems are starting to identify the genetic basis of such innovations. The data place plant evo-devo research at the cusp of discovering the developmental and genetic changes driving the radiation of land plant body plans.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Evo-devo in the genomics era, and the origins of morphological diversity’.

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“…(), evolution of land plants after Gerrienne et al . (). HICE , Hirnantian carbon isotope excursion; GICE , Guttenberg carbon isotope excursion; MDICE , mid‐Darriwilian carbon isotope excursion.…”

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“…; Gerrienne et al . ): land plant‐derived cryptospores from bryophyte‐like plants become widespread in the Middle Ordovician, forming a ‘bryophytic landscape’ (Fig. ).…”

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The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

Servais

Harper

2018

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The Ordovician biodiversification has been recognized since the 1960s; the term ‘The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event’, abbreviated by many as the ‘GOBE’, has been used for the past 20 years. The conceptual development and terminology applied to this crucial episode in marine life signify its considerable complexity. The GOBE includes successive biodiversity phases of the pelagic and benthic biotas, possibly decoupled. Put simply, the GOBE can be seen as a sequence of diversifications of the planktonic (late Cambrian–Early Ordovician), level‐bottom benthic (Early–Middle Ordovician) and reef communities (Middle–Late Ordovician), although the boundaries of these ‘events’ are diachronous (as for the entire GOBE), and it is logical to assume that these communities co‐evolved and interacted. The GOBE also includes several Biotic Immigration Events (BIMEs), such as the ‘Richmondian Invasion’ and the ‘Boda Event’, recording the large‐scale dispersal of taxa from one biogeographical area to another. The GOBE is thus the sum of the diversity trends of all individual fossil groups showing rapid increases, diachronously, during different intervals and across different regions. It thus spans the entire Ordovician, capturing the increasing total diversity of marine organisms during the period. The GOBE is not simply one, but many sequential events.

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Plant evolution and terrestrialization during Palaeozoic times—The phylogenetic context

Cited by 64 publications

References 174 publications

The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) and end-Guadalupian (Middle Permian) mass-extinction events compared

The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) and end-Guadalupian (Middle Permian) mass-extinction events compared

Development and genetics in the evolution of land plant body plans

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

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