Barinophyton

Barinophyton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Tracheophyta
Subdivision: Lycophytina
Class: †Zosterophyllopsida
Genus: †Barinophyton
White (1905)[1] emend. Brauer (1980)[2]

Barinophyton was a genus of Silu-Devonian land plant with branching axes.

A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Barinophyton in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[3]

lycophytes

†Hicklingia



†basal groups (Adoketophyton, Discalis, Distichophytum (=Rebuchia), Gumuia, Huia, Zosterophyllum myretonianum, Z. lianoveranum, Z. fertile)


†'core' zosterophylls (Zosterophyllum divaricatum, Tarella, Oricilla, Gosslingia, Hsua, Thrinkophyton, Protobarinophyton, Barinophyton obscurum, B. citrulliforme, Sawdonia, Deheubarthia, Konioria, Anisophyton, Serrulacaulis, Crenaticaulis)



†basal groups (Nothia, Zosterophyllum deciduum)


lycopsids (extant and extinct members)




References

  1. ^ White, D. (1905), "Paleontology", in Smith, G.O. & White, D. (eds), The Geology of the Perry Basin of South-eastern Maine, U.S. Geol. Surv., Prof. Pap. 35: 35–84, cited in Brauer 1981
  2. ^ Brauer, D.F. (1980), "Barinophyton citrulliforme (Barinophytales Incertae Sedis, Barinophytaceae) from the Upper Devonian of Pennsylvania", Am. J. Bot. 67: 1186–1206, cited in Brauer, David F. (1981), "Heterosporous, barinophytacean plants from the upper devonian of North America and a discussion of the possible affinities of the barinophytaceae", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 33 (2-4): 347–362, doi:10.1016/0034-6667(81)90092-0 
  3. ^ Crane, P.R.; Herendeen, P.; Friis, E.M. (2004). "Fossils and plant phylogeny". American Journal of Botany 91 (10): 1683–99. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.10.1683. PMID 21652317. http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/91/10/1683. Retrieved 2011-01-27. 

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