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Early Palaeozoic Plants

Marine plants from Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian are shown here. A weakly compelling argument has recently been made for the Cambrian form to be interpreted as acorn worm tubes.
Margaretia dorus, probable marine alga, 14 cm. Wheeler Formation, Middle Cambrian. House Range, Millard County, Utah, USA
Margaretia dorus, probable marine alga, 14 cm. Wheeler Formation, Middle Cambrian. House Range, Millard County, Utah, USA		 Prismostylus sp, a 16 cm rhodophyte alga from the Bromide Formation, Ordovician of Dunn Quarry, Criner Hills, Oklahoma, USA
Prismostylus sp, a 16 cm rhodophyte alga from the Bromide Formation, Ordovician of Dunn Quarry, Criner Hills, Oklahoma, USA		 Probable alga, 45 mm tall, with bulbous terminations of branches, Lower Silurian, Kalana Quarry, Estonia
Probable alga, 45 mm tall, with bulbous terminations of branches, Lower Silurian, Kalana Quarry, Estonia
Leveillites hartnegeli, non-calcareous alga, field of view 45 mm wide, Lower Silurian, Kalana, Estonia
Leveillites hartnegeli, non-calcareous alga, field of view 45 mm wide, Lower Silurian, Kalana, Estonia		 Leveillites hartnegeli, non-calcareous alga, field of view 3cm wide, Lower Silurian, Kalana, Estonia
Leveillites hartnegeli, non-calcareous alga, field of view 3cm wide, Lower Silurian, Kalana, Estonia		 Serially segmented fossils of Palaeocymopolia silurica, Kalana Quarry, Estonia. Field of view 3 cm high
Serially segmented fossils of Palaeocymopolia silurica, Kalana Quarry, Estonia. Field of view 3 cm high
Exceptionally preserved noncalcified thalli of dasycladalean (divison Chlorophyta) algal fossils, Kalana, Estonia
Exceptionally preserved noncalcified thalli of dasycladalean (divison Chlorophyta) algal fossils, Kalana, Estonia		 cf Rhadinograptus Obut, 1960, 25 mm, Lower Silurian, Kalana Quarry, Estonia
cf Rhadinograptus Obut, 1960, 25 mm, Lower Silurian, Kalana Quarry, Estonia		 cf Inocaulis Hall, 1852, field of view 3 cm, Lower Silurian, Kalana Quarry, Estonia
cf Inocaulis Hall, 1852, field of view 3 cm, Lower Silurian, Kalana Quarry, Estonia

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