Biology:Protosphagnum

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Short description: Extinct genus of mosses

Protosphagnum
Temporal range: Permian
Scientific classification edit
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Nejburg, 1960
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Binomial name
Protosphagnum nervatum
Nejburg, 1960 [1]

Protosphagnum nervatum is the only known species of order Protosphagnales. It is only known from the Permian fossil record. In many ways, it resembles the living moss genus Sphagnum, though its leaf cells are not as strongly dimorphic as in Sphagnum.[2]

References

  1. Nejburg, M. F. (1960). "Leafy mosses from the Permian deposits of Angarida". Trudy Geol. Inst. Leningr 19: 1–104. 
  2. Oostendorp, Cora (1987). The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic. Bryophytum Bibliotheca. 34. ISBN 3-443-62006-X. 

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