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The Invasion of Land. Early vascular plants, collectively known as rhyniophytes, first appeared in the late Early Silurian and diversified considerably through the Late Silurian.rthropods are the most diverse group of animals on Earth and include insects, crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods, and onychophorans as well as extinct forms like trilobites. eurypterid. Any member of an extinct order (Eurypterida) of mostly aquatic, scorpion-like arthropods that were common in the early Paleozoic.
The first land plants are known from the Siluran. They lacked leaves and performed photosynthesis in their stems. Leaves did not become common until about fifty million years after the origin of vascular plants. In the early Devonian, the plant Eophyllophyton bellum possessed small megaphylls.lthough most ferns reproduce using spores, one group evolved seeds although they were not ancestral to other seed plants. Fern leaves possess a highly branched vascular system. Some ferns in. have leaves that are 6-9 m long and probably the most complex leaves in the plant kingdom.