Biology:Moresnetiaceae

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Short description: Extinct family of seed ferns

Moresnetiaceae
Temporal range: Devonian–Carboniferous
Stamnostoma huttonense reconstruction.jpg
A reconstruction of Stamnostoma huttonense from the Early Carboniferous Cementstone Group at Foulden Newton, Berwickshire, Scotland[2]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Pteridospermatophyta
Class: Lyginopteridopsida
Order: Lyginopteridales
Family: Moresnetiaceae
Genera[1]
  • Elkinsia ovulate cupule
  • Calathospermum ovulate cupule
  • Stamnostoma ovulate cupule
  • Archaeosperma ovulate cupule
  • Kerryia ovulate cupule
  • Pullaritheca ovulate cupule
  • Salpingostoma ovule
  • Hydrasperma ovule
  • Diplopteridium leaves

Moresnetiaceae is a natural family of seed ferns in the Division Pteridospermatophyta that appears in the North American and European Devonian to Carboniferous coal measures.[3]

Description

Moresnetiaceae were shrubs to trees with radiospermic ovules with a lagenostome and aggregated into multiovular cupules.

References

  1. Anderson, J.M.; Anderson, H.M; Cleal, C.J. (2007). "Brief history of the gymnosperms: classification, biodiversity, phytogeography and ecology". Strelitzia 20: 1–280. 
  2. Retallack, G.J.; Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75 (3): 1010–1057. doi:10.2307/2399379. 
  3. Cleal, C.J.; Thomas, B.A. (1995). Palaeozoic palaeobotany of Britain. Chapman and Hall, London. pp. 295 pp. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q25095324 entry