Hamatophyton
Hamatophyton Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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Division: | Pteridophyta
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Genus: | Hamatophyton
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Hamatophyton is a genus of the extinct Sphenophyllales horsetails. Unique to this genus among other Sphenophyllales is its lack of secondary xylem around the tips of the primary xylem arms.[1]
References[]
- ^ Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings: Paleobotany. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants . Second Edition, Academic Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-12-373972-8 , p. 333
Categories:
- Horsetails
- Late Devonian plants
- Mississippian plants
- Prehistoric plant genera
- Late Devonian first appearances
- Mississippian extinctions
- Famennian life
- Tournaisian life
- Famennian genus first appearances
- Paleobotany stubs