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Psilophyton

fossil plant

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discovery by Dawson

In Sir John William Dawson
…of the then-earliest-known land plant, Psilophyton, which he found in Devonian strata (dating from 408 to 360 million years ago). In Air Breathers of the Coal Period (1863) he described newly discovered fossil animals. Dawson was knighted in 1884.
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