Pleuromeia dubia
Pleuromeia dubia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Class: | Lycopodiopsida |
Order: | Isoetales |
Family: | †Pleuromeiaceae |
Genus: | †Pleuromeia |
Species: | †P. dubia
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Binomial name | |
†Pleuromeia dubia Retallack 1995
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Pleuromeia dubia is a tall species for the genus, with distinctive elongate leaf scars, and known from the Early Triassic of Australia and South Africa. Like other species of Pleuromeia it was a survivor of the marked greenhouse spike at the end of the Early Triassic.[1]
See also[]
- Evolution of plants
References[]
- ^ Retallack, Gregory J. (2013). "Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises". Gondwana Research. 24: 90–103. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.003.
Categories:
- Triassic plants
- Lycophytes
- Lycophyte stubs