BOTANY 511
General Paleobotanical Literature for Background Reading
Beck, C.B. (Ed.) 1976. Origin and early evolution of angiosperms.
Columbia Univ. Press.
Beck, C.B. (Ed.) 1988. Origin and evolution of gymnosperms. Columbia Univ.
Press.
Bock, W. 1969. The America Triassic flora and global distribution. Geol.
Center Res. Ser. 3&4: 1-406.
Crane, P.R. and S. Blackmore. (Eds.) 1989. Evolution, systematics, and
fossil history of the Hamamelidae. Vol. 1. Introduction and 'Lower' Hamamelidae.
Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Friis, E.M., W.G. Chaloner and P.R. Crane. 1987. The origins of angiosperms
and their biological consequences. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Gifford, E.M. and A.S. Foster. 1989. Morphology and evolution of vascular
plants. 3rd ed. W.H. Freeman Co., N.Y.
Hallam, A. 1975. Jurassic Environments. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Hughes, N.F. 1976. Palaeobiology of angiosperm origins: Problems of Mesozoic
seed-plant evolution. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Iwatsuki, K and P.H. Raven (Eds.). 1997. Evolution and diversification
of land plants. Springer.
Meyen, S.V. 1987. Fundamentals of Palaeobotany. Chapman and Hall, N.Y.
Ruddall, P.J., P.J. Cribb, D.F. Cutler and C.J. Humphries (Eds.) 1995.
Monocotyledons: Systematics and Evolution. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
(2 volumes).
Stewart, W.N. and G.W. Rothwell. 1993. Paleobotany and the evolution of
plants. 2nd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Taylor, D.W. and L.J. Hickey (Eds.) 1996. Flowering plant origin, evolution
and phylogeny. Chapman and Hall, N.Y.
Taylor, T.N. and E.L. Taylor. 1993. The biology and evolution of fossil
plants. Prentice Hall, N.J.
Thomas, B. 1981. The evolution of plants and flowers. Peter Lowe, London.
Thomas, B.A. and R.A. Spicer. 1987. The evolution and palaeobiology of
land plants. Croom Helm, London.
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