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The first 35 million years of vascular plant evolution are examined for geographic and stratigraphic distribution and some significant characteristics that delimit early plant groups. The presumed evidence for vascular plants older than Late Silurian time is questioned.
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Harlan P. Banks (1975) studied this question.
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