Treubiites

Treubiites
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Order: Blasiales
Family: Treubiitaceae
Genus: Treubiites
R.M. Schust.[1]
Species: T. kidstonii
Binomial name
Treubiites kidstonii
(Walton)[2] R.M. Schust.[1]
Synonyms

Hepaticites kidstonii Walton

Treubiites kidstonii is a fossil species of liverworts in the family Treubiitaceae.[3] The only known fossils come from Late Carboniferous deposits of Shropshire, England.

References

  1. 1 2 Schuster, R. M. (1966). The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America 1. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 353.
  2. Walton, J. (1925). "Carboniferous Bryophyta. I. Hepaticae". Annals of Botany 39: 563–572.
  3. Oostendorp, Cora (1987). The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic. Bryophytorum Bibliotheca 34. pp. 92–93. ISBN 3-443-62006-X.
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