Evolution of Land Plants/Amphibians

• When did plants emergence onto land?

  During the Cambrien
• What were the first plants?

  Liverworms and Moss
• Where & How did they live?

  Formed over surfaces of wet soils - created habitats where animals could live. Had shallow root systems
• When were Plants first used as a food source?

  In the Silurian, fossils show millipedes containing remnants of plants
• When was the First Forest?


  in the Devonian, plants aquired trunks and developed seeds - allowed to survive droughts and move away from coastal wetlands
• When was the first Tropical Rainforest?


  Carboniferous, lots of coal today came from Carboniferous - shows they had a rich diversity e.g giant dragonfly’s