Moresnetiaceae (original) (raw)

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Extinct family of seed ferns

MoresnetiaceaeTemporal range: Devonian–Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
A reconstruction of Stamnostoma huttonense from the Early Carboniferous Cementstone Group at Foulden Newton, Berwickshire, Scotland[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: †Pteridospermatophyta
Class: †Lyginopteridopsida
Order: †Lyginopteridales
Family: †Moresnetiaceae
Genera[1]
Elkinsia ovulate cupule Calathospermum ovulate cupule Stamnostoma ovulate cupule Archaeosperma ovulate cupule Kerryia ovulate cupule Pullaritheca ovulate cupule Salpingostoma ovule Hydrasperma ovule Diplopteridium leaves

Moresnetiaceae is a natural family of seed ferns in the Division Pteridospermatophyta that appears in the North American and European Devonian to Carboniferous coal measures.[3]

Moresnetiaceae were shrubs to trees with radiospermic ovules with a lagenostome and aggregated into multiovular cupules.

  1. ^ Anderson, J.M.; Anderson, H.M & Cleal, C.J. (2007). "Brief history of the gymnosperms: classification, biodiversity, phytogeography and ecology". Strelitzia. 20: 1–280.
  2. ^ Retallack, G.J. & Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75 (3): 1010–1057. doi:10.2307/2399379. JSTOR 2399379.
  3. ^ Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A. (1995). Palaeozoic palaeobotany of Britain. Chapman and Hall, London. pp. 295 pp.