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(paleobiology) A plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia..
Whether bryophytes actually arose from such a cooksonioid ancestor (see Miller 1982) needs to be addressed further.
A previous study had suggested a minimum size limit below which cooksonioid plants could not have functioned as photosynthetically independent plants.
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Cooksonioid means (paleobiology) A plant having features like those of the extinct genus Cooksonia..
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Whether bryophytes actually arose from such a cooksonioid ancestor (see Miller 1982) needs to be addressed further.
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