This web page contains the topics that will not be covered in the paleobotany short course due to time constraints. Much of the information about the early Earth is relevant and useful. You may want to take some time to review, as the early events set the stage for land plant evolution.
Early Earth (4,560 - 2,500 mya)
Oxygen Changes the World (2,500 - 635 mya)
Proterozoic Eon (2.5-0.54 bya)
Paleoproterozoic Era (2.5-1.6 bya)
Mesoproterozoic Era (1.6-1.0 bya)
Archean Eon (4.0-2.5 bya)
Hadean Eon (4.5-4.0 bya)
Origin of life
Photosynthesis
The Great Oxygenic Crisis
Origin of the nucleus, sex, & eukaryotes
Diversification of acritarchs & early algae