Biology:Glossopteridaceae

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Short description: Extinct family of seed ferns

Glossopteridaceae
Temporal range: Late Permian
Dictyopteridium sporiferum reconstruction.jpg
Reconstruction of the glossopterid plant Dictyopteridium sporiferum, with Glossopteris communis leaves, Eretmonia hinjridaensis pollen organ, Protohaploxypinus limpidus pollen, Araucarioxylon bengalense wood and chambered roots of Vertebraria australis from Late Permian Blackwater Coal Measures near Homevale Station, Queensland[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Glossopteridales
Family: Glossopteridaceae
Plumstead 1956
Genera
  • Dictyopteridium ovulate structure
  • Eretmonia pollen organ
  • Glossopteris leaves
  • Ottokaria ovulate structure
  • Plumsteadia ovulate structure
  • Vertebraria chambered roots

The Glossopteridaceae are an extinct family of plants belonging to Pteridospermatophyta, or seed ferns.[2]

References

  1. Retallack, G.J.; Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Missouri Botanical Garden Annals 75 (3): 1010–1057. doi:10.2307/2399379. 
  2. Taylor, Edith L.; Taylor, Thomas N.; Krings, Michael (2009). Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Academic Press. pp. 271–74. ISBN 9780080557830. https://books.google.com/books?id=_29tNNeQKeMC&q=Protolepidodendrales. 

Wikidata ☰ Q18549886 entry