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a ALO ANY PALYNOLOGY Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 90 (1995) 375-376 Contents Volume 90, 1996 Special Issue: Palaeozoic Phytogeography (edited by C. Wnuk and H.W. Pfefferkorn) Foreword: the value of paleophytogeography C. Wnuk and H.W. Pfefferkorn Late Paleozoic phytogeographic provinces in China and its adjacent regions Li Xingxue and Wu Xiuyuan The Xu—Huai—Yu Subprovince of the Cathaysian Floral Province M. Mei, M. Du, Q.C. Huang and D.L. Dilcher The biogeography of the late Paleozoic floras of India Paleoecological parallelism between the Angaran and Euramerican phytogeographic provinces M.V. Oshurkova Late Pennsylvanian climate changes and palynomorph extinctions R.M. Kosanke and C.B. Cecil A review of the problems in the stratigraphical, palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical interpretation of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) floras from Western Europe A.C. Scott and J. Galtier New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a Lilliputian world D. Edwards New information on gametophytes and sporophytes of Aglaophyton major and inferences about possible environmental adaptations W. Remy, H. Hass Biomechanics in fossil plant biology V. Mosbrugger, A. Roth Pteridophytic evolution: an often underappreciated phytological success story ens ee aa Vea lace rete ce dus ec atresehsceces SeaaNeds sss45esdscatancdsvasedessiennssboseeycasdencesssensvocessseavseseeseveceetsede Plant paleoecology and evolutionary inference: two examples from the Paleozoic W. A. DiMichele, R. M. Bateman The importance of fungi in shaping the paleoecosystem a gah Se CGA asa lescanddestaechosatecastabdcpsasesesadesesnseos cadiaascadeencosoosenesceasesaseoscenncesdeseneseesaoesss 249 Post-Variscan late Palaeozoic Northern Hemisphere gymnosperms: the onset to the Mesozoic ace Daa eI dCs 241d os Lael nun pcsiaa cody gdenseoedvuvdandqebscestevetncisotnesonsuseecnccovcceaterensosescrscsesessueseees 263 Aspects of Gondwana paleobotany: gymnosperms of the Paleozoic—Mesozoic transition aN ee ete Fd sem ed av ahveh nuelcpvsn sone odvsnscasioussilncisNcnsabivevesesdesosiversscesnescsvaasasseoseeceeesonsesssesss 287 Enigmatic gymnosperms? Structurally preserved Permian and Triassic seed ferns from Antarctica E.L. Taylor Cretaceous floras containing angiosperm flowers and fruits from eastern North America P.R. Crane, P.S. Herendeen 376 Timing in the evolution of derived floral characters: Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) taxa with tricolpate and tricolpate-derived pollen Paleobotany in cladistics and cladistics in paleobotany: enlightenment and uncertainty K.C. Nixon