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    Aperçu sur les tentaculoïdes du dévonien inférieur du massif armoricain

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    Le dévonien supérieur dans le Sud-Est du massif armoricain

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    Signification paléoécologique et paléogéographique des bivalves du Carbonifère inférieur du bassin d’Ancenis (Massif armoricain)

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    À la base du Dinantien de la formation d’Ancenis, les argilites verdâtres ou violacées contiennent des bivalves attribués aux genres Lithophaga, Modiolus et Naiadites. Ces formes, qui indiquent des milieux saumâtres, sont seulement connues, au même moment, en Écosse, et suggèrent la proximité d’un relief émergé, bordure septentrionale de la chaîne hercynienne telle qu’elle fut construite au Dévonien supérieur.In the basal part of the Ancenis Formation, of Dinantian age, greenish to purple mudstones display a few bivalves, assigned to the genera Lithophaga, Modiolus, and Naiadites. Because Naiadites is considered to be a non-marine bivalve, and is only previously reported in Scotland in Dinantian rocks, a brackish environment can be assumed for the Ancenis Basin during the Early Carboniferous.</p

    A simple type of wood in two early Devonian plants

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    The advent of wood (secondary xylem) is a major event of the Paleozoic Era, facilitating the evolution of large perennial plants. The first steps of wood evolution are unknown. We describe two small Early Devonian (407 to 397 million years ago) plants with secondary xylem including simple rays. Their wood currently represents the earliest evidence of secondary growth in plants. The small size of the plants and the presence of thick-walled cortical cells confirm that wood early evolution was driven by hydraulic constraints rather than by the necessity of mechanical support for increasing height. The plants described here are most probably precursors of lignophytes
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