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When and how did plants and animals take to the land?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

R. D. K. Thomas
R. D. K. Thomas*
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Department of Geology, Franklin and Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604
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The origin and diversification of terrestrial communities has long been associated with the Devonian. The earliest known substantial assemblage of land plants and animals preserved in or close to their original habitats is still that of the Rhynie Chert peat bog, from Scotland, which is of Siegenian age.

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Paleobiology , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Winter 1984 , pp. 1 - 8
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