Drepanophycus
Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drepanophycus is a genus of extinct plants of the division Lycopodiophyta of Early to Late Devonian age (around 420 to 370 million years ago), found in Eastern Canada and Northeast US, China, Russia, Egypt and various parts of Northern Europe and Britain.
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Drepanophycus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Order: | †Drepanophycales |
Family: | †Drepanophycaceae |
Genus: | †Drepanophycus Göpp., 1852 |
Species | |
Another species has been described: Drepanophycus colophyllus Grierson & Banks - but this has since been removed to the genus Haskinsia. |
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