Late Palaeozoic plants Zhuo Feng  Current Biology  Volume 27, Issue 17, Pages R905-R909 (September 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041 Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Late Palaeozoic floras. Palaeogeographical map showing the major floristic realms during the Late Carboniferous (ca. 300 million years ago). Modified from: Montañez, I.P. and Poulsen, C.J. (2013). The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: an evolving paradigm. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 41, 629–656. Current Biology 2017 27, R905-R909DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041) Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Ecology of early vascular plants. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii and Ebullitiocaris oviformis from the Rhynie Chert, Early Devonian, Scotland (ca. 411 million years ago). Cross-section of an axis of the early vascular land plant Rhynia with the sessile crustacean Ebullitiocaris. The dark ring a few cell layers below the surface represents mycorrhizal fungi that live in the intercellular spaces of the outer cortex. (Photograph: Hans Kerp, Münster.) Current Biology 2017 27, R905-R909DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041) Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 A Permian giant calamite tree. Reconstruction of Arthropitys bistriata based on a nearly complete fossil specimen from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany (scale bar = 1 m). Artwork by Frederik Spindler, Freiberg. From Rößler, R., Feng, Z. and Noll, R. (2012). The largest calamite and its growth architecture, Arthropitys bistriata from the Permian Petrified Forest of Chemnitz. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 185, 64–78. Current Biology 2017 27, R905-R909DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041) Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 4 Vegetational Pompeii. An early Permian peat-forming forest in Inner Mongolia, China. Note the tall trees on the left of the image are cordaites. Artwork by Yugao Ren, from Wang, J., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Zhang, Y. and Feng, Z. (2012). Permian vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia and its implications for landscape paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 4927–4932. Current Biology 2017 27, R905-R909DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041) Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions