Iridopteridales

Iridopteridales
Temporal range:
Reconstruction of the external anatomy of the Devonian plant Ibyka amphikoma Skog & Banks, from the original description[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Pteridophyta (?)
Class: †Cladoxylopsida
Order: †
Genera

†Arachnoxylon
†Compsocradus
†Iridopteris
†Metacladophyton
†Ibyka
†Serripteris
†Asteropteris
†Anapaulia
†Keraphyton[1]
†Rotoxylon

Iridopteridales is an order of the extinct cladoxylopsids. It contains the genus Ibyka which is a possible ancestor of the horsetails.[3]

References

  1. ^ Champreux A, Meyer-Berthaud B, Decombeix A. 2020. Keraphyton gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia. PeerJ 8:e9321 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9321
  2. ^ J. E. Skog and H. P. Banks (1973), "Ibyka Amphikoma, Gen. et sp. n., a New Protoarticulate Precursor from the Late Middle Devonian of New York State", American Journal of Botany, 60 (4): 366–380, doi:10.2307/2441203, JSTOR 2441203
  3. ^ 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. 398-400.


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