Treubiites

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Treubiites
Fossil range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Order: Blasiales
Family: Treubiitaceae †
Genus: Treubiites †
Schust., 1966
Species: T. kidstonii
Binomial name
Treubiites kidstonii
Schust., 1966
Synonyms

Hepaticites kidstonii Walton

Treubiites kidstonii is a fossil species of liverworts in the family Treubiitaceae.[1] The only known fossils come from Late Carboniferous deposits of Shropshire, England.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Oostendorp, Cora (1987). The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic, Bryophytorum Bibliotheca 34, 92-93. ISBN 3-443-62006-X. 
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