Biology:Gosslingia
| Gosslingia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Plesion: | †Zosterophylls |
| Order: | †incertae sedis |
| Family: | †Gosslingiaceae |
| Genus: | †Gosslingia |
Gosslingia was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Fossils have been from the Lochkovian to the Pragian, 419 to 408 million years ago.[1]
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Gosslingia in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[3]
Hao and Xue in 2013 used the absence of terminal sporangia to place the genus in the family Gosslingiaceae in the paraphyletic order Gosslingiales, a group considered to have indeterminate growth, with fertile branches generally showing circinate vernation (initially curled up).[1] Kenrick and Crane in 1997 also placed the genus in the family Gosslingiaceae, but they place this family in the order Sawdoniales.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hao, Shougang; Xue, Jinzhuang (2013). The early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan: a contribution to an understanding of the evolution and early diversification of vascular plants. Beijing: Science Press. pp. 52–54. ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269875285. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
- ↑ Boyce, C.K. (2008). "How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage". Paleobiology 34 (2): 179–194. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0179:HGWCTI2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0094-8373.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Kenrick, Paul; Crane, Peter R. (1997). The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-56098-730-7.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1503397 entry
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