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Re: Living Relative Of First Land Plants Found


Haven't read the paper yet, but Delwiche is very good. It looks like I will have to move my {{Metaphyta}} marker down one node in my classification of Class Charophycea (here's my basic classification--details omitted):

   Was:
Charophycea
  1  Chlorokybales
  2  Klebsormidiales
  B  Conjugales
  3  Coleochaetales
  B  {{Metaphyta}}
  4  Charales

   With marker moved down:
Charophycea
  1  Chlorokybales
  2  Klebsormidiales
  B  Conjugales
  3  Coleochaetales
  4  Charales
  5  {{Metaphyta}}

P.S. If there was a clade which was cladistically defined as (anchored on) Coleochaetales + Metaphyta, it looks like this clade will now be including Order Charales as well. Either way, Class Charophycea is paraphyletic.
On a lighter note, for those of you who think ornithischians are boring, you must find their "prey" (land plants) even more so. They have no bones and they just sit around in one spot doing their photosynthesis thing all day.
:-O YAWN!!! ;-)


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