Here, during the Viséan age, Lower Carboniferous, swamps covered the territory that would become Scotland. They were home of unusual giants: arthropods and arborescent lycophytes grew to extraordinary sizes.

I might use the word "giant" a lot in this thread!

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I have another clade-specific terminology diagram, which'll be part of an upcoming blog post!
This time it's the

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The Devonian saw Earth’s first forests as lycophytes, horsetails and ferns grew to large sizes. The first ammonites appeared in the oceans and cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays were abundant by the late Devonian. Lots of tectonic activity and Pangaea began to form 🌎

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Carboniferous period, southern Gondwana. A stream of freezing water has formed a rocky valley that runs through the lycophytes forest.
The second image shows a river inhabitant, Euproops (a freshwater horseshoe crab), which digs the clayey bed in search of organic matter to eat.

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spent all day on this lycophytes lab so look at some of the sketches from it

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Quick study today while listening to podcast episode on ferns and lycophytes with guest
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Reference from

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