Leclercqia

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Leclercqia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Lycopodiophyta
Class: incertae sedis
Order: Protolepidodendrales
Family: Protolepidodendraceae
Genus: Leclerqia
Species

See text.

An early ligulate lycophyte, known as fossils from the Middle Devonian of Australia, North America, Germany, and Belgium.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Taylor, Thomas N. & Edith L. Taylor. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, page 139. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993). ISBN 0-13-651589-4.


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Early land floræ
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The first...?
Vascular plant, Cooksonia  • Tree, Wattieza  • Lycopods, the Drepanophycales and the Zosterophylls  • Fungus fossil, Ornatifilum  • Lichen, Spongiophyton
Enigmatic taxa
Cuticular remains: Cosmochlaina, Nematothallus • A giant fungus? — Prototaxites
Sister taxa
Green algae: Charophyta, from which land plants evolved • Chaetocladus, an early alga
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