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Modelled crown-Embryophyta divergence

A fossil-calibrated molecular clock estimates a middle Cambrian–Early Ordovician origin for crown land plants; it does not directly date fossil first appearances or terrestrial ecosystem expansion.

Represented range515–473 Ma
RegionsGlobal molecular-clock sample
CladesEmbryophyta

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Bayesian relaxed-clock analyses using 37 fossil calibrations estimate crown Embryophyta to have emerged in a middle Cambrian–Early Ordovician interval, before crown tracheophytes in the Late Ordovician–Silurian; these are modelled divergence times, not direct fossil first appearances.

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References

  1. The timescale of early land plant evolutionMorris, J.L.; Puttick, M.N.; Clark, J.W.; et al. · 2018 · DOI 10.1073/pnas.1719588115
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