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Science 18 April 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4441, pp. 295 - 296
DOI: 10.1126/science.208.4441.295
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Devonian Gametophytes with Anatomically Preserved Gametangia

WINFRIED REMY 1 and RENATE REMY 1

1 Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik am Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, D-4400 Münster, West Germany

The oldest anatomically preserved and physiologically apparently independent gametophytes are described from the Lower Devonian of Scotland. These gametophytes have upright, leafless axes with terminally borne, bowl-shaped game-tangiophores. The antheridia are stalked and their walls are multicellular. The archegonia are clustered in groups on common bases.

Submitted on August 29, 1979
Revised on November 26, 1979


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