Lagenostoma

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Lagenostoma
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Lagenostoma lomaxii after Retallack and Dilcher 1988.jpg
Reconstructed plant with Lagenostoma lomaxii ovules, Lyginopteris oldhamiana permineralized stem and Sphenopteris hoeningshausenii leaves [1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: †Pteridospermatophyta
Class: †Lyginopteridopsida
Order: †Lyginopteridales
Family: †Lyginopteridaceae
Genus: †Lagenostoma
Williamson 1877
Species
  • Lagenostoma lomaxii
  • Lagenostoma physoides
  • Lagenostoma ovoides

Lagenostoma is a genus of seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta), based on ovules preserved in coal balls from the Six Inch Coal of the Hough Hill Colliery near Stalybridge, England. Distinctive stalked glands enabled Oliver and Scott[2] to attribute these seeds to fernlike foliage of Sphenopteris hoeningshauseni in the same coal balls. This was the first recognition that some Carboniferous fernlike leaves had seeds, and so were not pteridophytes, but rather Pteridospermatophyta, or seed ferns. The realization that seed plants as well as spore plants had fernlike leaves was a major contribution to the evolutionary history of plants.

Cross section of permineralized Lyginopteris oldhamiana from the Late Carboniferous Six Inch Coal upper Millstone Grit near Stalybridge, England
Leaf of Sphenopteris hoeningshauseni from the Late Mississippian Subconglomerate Coal of Dade County, Georgia, USA

Description[]

Lagenostoma has large (7–8 mm) ovules arranged in branching structures. The genus name comes from the distinctive prepollen receiving structure of a cone blocked by a growing plug of tissue.

Whole plant associations[]

  • from the Late Carboniferous Six Inch Coal of the upper Millstone grit near Stalybridge UK, has distinctive stalked glands linking it with stems of and .

References[]

  1. ^ Retallack, G.J.; Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Missouri Botanical Garden Annals. 75 (3): 1010–1057. doi:10.2307/2399379. JSTOR 2399379.
  2. ^ Oliver, F.W.; Scott, D.H. (1903). "On Lagenostoma lomaxi, the seed of Lyginodendron". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 71 (467–476): 477–481. doi:10.1098/rspl.1902.0130.

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