Unfortunately, Carmen´s landscape didn´t make it to the final version of the paper, but it still conveys one of the main points of our study... early non-vascular land plants probably looked like extant Marchantiales.

#PaleoSky #Paleoart #Paleontology #Phylogeny

In that paper, we inferred a Silurian-Devonian origin for Marchantiales - instead of Permian as estimated with molecules alone.

We also found evidence of morphological stasis, an #evolutionary pattern characterised by a lack of morphological changes, which lasted nearly 200 Ma. 👉

This hypothetical liverwort was inferred as part of a #phylogenetic dating analysis of the complex thalloid liverworts based on #fossils, morphology and molecules that was published in @newphyt.bsky.social back in 2023

Check it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... 👉