Biology:Tarella

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Short description: Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants

Tarella
Temporal range: Early Devonian[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Plesion: Zosterophylls
Genus: Tarella

Tarella was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Fossils came from Pragian age rocks (411 to 408 million years ago).[3]

A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Tarella in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[4]

Hao and Xue in 2013 listed the genus as a zosterophyll.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hao, Shougang; Xue, Jinzhuang (2013), The early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan: a contribution to an understanding of the evolution and early diversification of vascular plants, Beijing: Science Press, p. 329, ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269875285, retrieved 2019-10-25 
  2. Boyce, C.K. (2008). "How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage". Paleobiology 34 (2): 179–194. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0179:HGWCTI2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0094-8373. 
  3. Hao & Xue (2013), p. 329.
  4. Crane, P.R.; Herendeen, P.; Friis, E.M. (2004). "Fossils and plant phylogeny". American Journal of Botany 91 (10): 1683–99. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.10.1683. PMID 21652317. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1277331 entry