Surface fires driven by dry seasons are evident in Devonian and Carboniferous progymnosperm forests.
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An ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived
The progymnosperms are an extinct group of woody, spore-bearing plants that probably evolved from the Trimerophytales, and eventually gave rise to the gymnosperms. ...
(progymnosperms) Extinct seedless vascular plants that may be ancestral to seed plants.