Glossopteridaceae

Glossopteridaceae
Temporal range: Late Permian

subdivision ranks = genera

Reconstruction of the glossopterid plant Dictyopteridium sporiferum, with Glossopteris communis leaves, Eretmonia hinjridaensis pollen organ, Protohaploxypinus limpidus pollen, Ararucarioxylon bengalense wood and chambered roots of Vertebraria australis from Late Permian Blackwater Coal Measures near Homevale Station, Queesnland[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridospermatophyta
Order: Arberiales
Family: Glossopteridaceae
Plumstead 1956
Genera

The Glossopteridaceae are an extinct family of plants belonging to Pteridospermatophyta, or seed ferns. [2]

References

  1. Retallack, G.J. & Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Missouri Botanical Garden Annals 75: 1010–1057.
  2. Taylor, Edith L.; Taylor, Thomas N.; Krings, Michael (2009). Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Academic Press. pp. 271–74. ISBN 9780080557830.
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