Morphologically complex plant macrofossils from the Late Silurian of Arctic Canada

• Published in: American Journal of Botany
• Main Authors: Kotyk, Michele E., Basinger, James F., Gensel, Patricia G., de Freitas, Tim A.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Bathurst Island; Canada; Nunavut
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.89.6.1004; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3732/ajb.89.6.1004

In addition to vegetative remains, fertile remains from ten plants, representing seven distinct taxa whose size and complexity are much greater than most contemporaneous fossils, are reported from late Ludlow (Ludfordian) sediments of Bathurst Island in Nunavut, Canada. Evidence for the age of these...