Biology:Anisophyton
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Short description: Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants
| Anisophyton | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Plesion: | †Zosterophylls |
| Genus: | †Anisophyton |
Anisophyton was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Known fossils are of Emsian age (408 to 393 million years ago).[1]
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Anisophyton in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Remy, W.; Hass, H.; Schultka, S. (1986). "Anisophyton potoniei nov. spec. aus den Kühlbacher Schichten (Emsian) vom Steinbruch Ufersmühle, Wiehltalsperre". Argumenta Palaeobotanica 7: 123–138.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 ☰ Q4765396 entry
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