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Evidence for Plant Herbivory
Evidence for Plant Herbivory
The Visean Age (347-331 Ma) is the second age in the Mississippian Epoch in the Carboniferous Period, occurring after the Tournaisian age, and before the Serpukhovian age
Geologic Age
Geologic Age
346.7±0.4–330.9±0.3 Ma
Eon / Era / Period / Epoch
Eon / Era / Period / Epoch
Above: The pinna of a medullosid seed fern, Neuropteris, with evidence of herbivory
What happened during this time?
What happened during this time?
Biological
Biological
Flora
Zygopterid ferns appear on the landscape
Medullosid seed ferns also appear in the late Visean
Fauna
Some of the earliest evidence of plant herbivory during this time
Oldest known broken tetrapod bone: the forearm of Ossinodus pueri from Queensland, Australia.
A two-meter-long primitive tetrapod lived around 333 million years ago,
Fractured radius under a high-force, impact-type scenario indicating terrestrial habit
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