Chapter 8: Leaving the Water

Review Questions for Chapter 8

Introduction

• Christopher Scotese's Cool Maps of the Paleozoic World including the Early Devonian (390 Ma) or Here for Collision Watchers
  and also the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) (356 Ma) and the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) (306 Ma)

The Origin of Land Plants

• A History of Paleozoic Forests
• The Earliest (Silurian) Plants and Plant Spores
• Living Aquatic Relatives of "Drier Algae" (i.e., "Higher Land Plants")

The Earliest Land Floras

• Devonian Sphenophyta were Trees while Today they are Horsetails
• Devonian Lycophyta were Scale Trees Over 35 m Tall while Today they are Club Mosses
• Devonian Plants
• Pertica quadrifaria: Maine's 390 Ma. State Fossil or Here
• Illustration of the Ancient Lizard-like Reptile, Hylonomus in a Coal Forest (350 Ma)
• Images of Non-flowering Plants
• An Introduction to Ferns
• Links for Paleobotanists

Comparing Plant and Animal Evolution

• Brief Lecture Notes on Differences between Aquatic and Land Habitats
• Life on Land vs. Life in Water

The First Land Animals

• First Appearances by Group
• The Earliest Animals on Land Left Trails

From Osteolepiform (Osteolepimorpha or Aquatic Rhipidistians) to Tetrapod

• Introduction to Lobe-fin Fishes
• Big Dead Fish: The Rhizodonta
• Very Cool Coelacanth Website
• Recent Discovery of Living Coelacanths 6,000 Miles from Only Previous Known Site
• An Extinct Lungfish
• Living Lungfish
• Fossil of Osteolepis

The First Tetrapods

• Henry Gee's Brief Description of the Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Earliest Tetrapod
• Jenny Clack's Excellent Account of Acanthostega at the Tree of Life Website
• Nova's Profile on Jenny Clack including From Fish to Four Legs and Enter Acanthostega
• Description of Acanthostega or Summary
• Elginerpeton, the Earliest Tetrapod
• Tiktaalik roseae - Missing Link?
• Comparison of Eusthenopteron and Acanthostega Skulls
• Carl Zimmer's "Coming onto the Land"
• Tree of Life Page on Ichthyostega
• Out of the Swamps
• Neil and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Douglas Henderson's Illustrations of Hynerpeton bassetti (363 Ma) and Ichthyostega
• Richard Cowen's Locomotion and Respiration in Marine Air-Breathing Vertebrates

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