Biology:Supaia

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Short description: Extinct genus of fern-like plant

Supaia
Temporal range: Permian
~Permian
Grand Canyon National Park GRCA 3274, Fossil Fern - Flickr - Grand Canyon NPS.jpg
Supaia sturdevanti
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Peltaspermales/?
Genus: Supaia
C.D.White
Species[1]
  • Supaia sturdevanti C.D.White
  • Supaia thinnfeldioides C.D.White

Supaia is an extinct genus of fern-like plants, possibly seed ferns.[2] Species belonging to the genus lived during the Permian[3] in North America,[3] east Asia,[4] and Madagascar.[5] The leaves were adapted to minimize water loss, and the genus is thought to have grown as small trees (up to 4 meters (13 ft) in height) in a mudflat environment subject to frequent drought.[6]

References

  1. Andrews, H. N. (1970). "Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820-1965". Geological Survey Bulletin 1300: 1–354. doi:10.3133/b1300. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1114957/. 
  2. DiMichele, William A.; Chaney, Dan S.; Nelson, W. John; Lucas, Spencer G.; Looy, Cindy V.; Quick, Karen; Jun, Wang (July 2007). "A low diversity, seasonal tropical landscape dominated by conifers and peltasperms: Early Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 145 (3–4): 249–273. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.11.003. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lucas, Spencer G.; Krainer, Karl; Chaney, Dan S.; DiMichele, William A.; Voigt, Sebastian; Berman, David S.; Henrici, Amy C. (2013). "The Lower Permian Abo Formation in Central New Mexico". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 59: 161–180. 
  4. Heilongjiang Stratigraphic Group. 1979. The Stratigraphic Tables of Heilongjiang. Geology Press 1-300
  5. Besairie, H.; Collignon, M. (1972). "Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires". Annales Géologiques de Madagascar 35: 1–463. 
  6. DiMichele, William A.; Lucas, Spencer G.; Krainer, Karl (July 2012). "Vertebrate trackways among a stand of Supaia White plants on an early Permian floodplain, New Mexico". Journal of Paleontology 86 (4): 584–594. doi:10.1666/11-137R.1. 

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