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Horneophyton is an
extinct early plant which may form a "missing link"
between the
hornworts and the Rhyniopsida. It is a
member of the
class Horneophytopsida...
- in 1917,
under the name Psilophyta, with only
three genera (Rhynia,
Horneophyton and Psilophyton) for a
group of
fossil plants from the
Upper Silurian...
- grew on
sandy surfaces, and is
often preserved there in life position;
Horneophyton grew on sinter, the
sediment formed by the hot springs.
These two colonisers...
- the
horneophytes include: †Caia Fanning,
Edwards &
Richardson (1990) †
Horneophyton Barg****n &
Darrah (1938) (Hornea
Kidston & Lang (1920) non
Baker (1877);...
-
inadequate anatomical preservation", but
exclude plants like
Aglaophyton and
Horneophyton which definitely do not
possess tracheids.: 214–215 In 1966, slightly...
- "protracheophytes", such as
Aglaophyton or
Horneophyton tracheophytes or
vascular plants...
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although fossil evidence of
rhizoids occurs for
several species, such as
Horneophyton. The
earliest land
plants did not have
vascular systems for transport...
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bryophytes and that of true
vascular plants (eutracheophytes).
Genera such as
Horneophyton have water-conducting
tissue more like that of mosses, but a different...
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genus Cooksonia. The
early Devonian pretracheophytes Aglaophyton and
Horneophyton have
structures very
similar to the
hydroids of
modern mosses. Plants...
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group hornworts only
begins in the
upper Cretaceous, the
lower Devonian Horneophyton may
represent a stem
group to the clade, as it
possesses a sporangium...
