Tarrantia

Tarrantia
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Stem group: †Rhyniophytes (?)
Genus: †Tarrantia
U.Fanning, D.Edwards & J.B.Richardson, 1992
Species:
†T. salopensis
Binomial name
†Tarrantia salopensis
U.Fanning, D.Edwards & J.B.Richardson, 1992

Tarrantia is a form genus of small fossil plants of Early Devonian age. The diagnostic characters are naked parallel-sided axes branching isotomously, terminating in solitary elliptical to ovate sporangia with height greater than width. The relationships of the genus are not clear because many anatomical details remain unknown. It has been treated as a possible rhyniophyte.

The only known species is from Wales.

References

  1. 1 2 Fanning, U.; Edwards, D.; Richardson, J.B. (1992). "A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 161–188. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00264.x.
  2. ↑ Hao, Shougang & Xue, Jinzhuang (2013), The early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan: a contribution to an understanding of the evolution and early diversification of vascular plants, Beijing: Science Press, pp. 47, 329, ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0, retrieved 2019-10-25