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Ordovician Period
- In Ordovician Period: Earliest land plants
Trilete spores, which divide via meiosis to form a tetrad of cells that disperse separately, first appeared in the late Late Ordovician and form a rare, geographically isolated component in cryptospore assemblages. Although spores are known from older rocks, cryptospore and trilete spores are thought…
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