Zosterophyllum
Zosterophyllum
Temporal range: Silurian to Devonian
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| Scientific classification |
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Plantae |
| Division: |
Tracheophyta |
| Subdivision: |
Lycophytina |
| Class: |
†Zosterophyllopsida |
| Genus: |
†Zosterophyllum
Penh. (1892) |
| Species |
- †Z. australianum Lang & Cookson (1930)
- †Z. bifurcatum Li & Cai
- †Z. deciduum Gerrienne
- †Z. divaricatum
- †Z. fertile Leclercq (1942)
- †Z. llanoveranum Croft & Lang (1942)
- †Z. longum (Høeg) Høeg (1967)
- †Z. minor Ananiev (1960)
- †Z. minutum
- †Z. myretonianum Penh.
- †Z. rhenanum Kräusel & Weyland (1935)
- †Z. spectabile
- †Z. yunnanicum Hsü
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Zosterophyllum was a genus of Silurian-Devonian land plant with branching axes.
Some species have been transferred to other genera:
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places the species of Zosterophyllum in a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[1]
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†Hicklingia
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†basal groups (Adoketophyton, Discalis, Distichophytum (=Rebuchia), Gumuia, Huia, Zosterophyllum myretonianum, Z. lianoveranum, Z. fertile)
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†'core' zosterophylls (Zosterophyllum divaricatum, Tarella, Oricilla, Gosslingia, Hsua, Thrinkophyton, Protobarinophyton, Barinophyton obscurum, B. citrulliforme, Sawdonia, Deheubarthia, Konioria, Anisophyton, Serrulacaulis, Crenaticaulis)
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†basal groups (Nothia, Zosterophyllum deciduum)
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lycopsids (extant and extinct members)
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