Gessella

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Gessella
Fossil range: Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Haplomitriopsida
Order: Haplomitriales
Family: Haplomitriaceae
Genus: Gessella †
Poulsen, 1974
Species

Gessella communis
Gessella striata

Gessella is a fossil genus of liverworts in the family Haplomitriaceae.[1] All known fossils come from Early Permian deposits of Western Sealand.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Oostendorp, Cora (1987). The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic, Bryophytorum Bibliotheca 34, 35-36. ISBN 3-443-62006-X. 
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