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| Pseudobornia Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Pseudobornia ursina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Subclass: | Equisetidae |
| Order: | †Pseudoborniales |
| Genus: | †Pseudobornia Nathorst. |
| Species: | †P. ursina |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pseudobornia ursina | |
Pseudobornia is a genus of plants identified only from the Upper Devonian.[1] It contains a single species Pseudobornia ursina, and is the earliest fossil assigned with certainty to the Equisetopsida.
The first fossils of Pseudobornia were collected by Johan Gunnar Andersson on Bear Island in the 1890s.[2] Hans-Joachim Schweitzer, a paleobotanist, was the first to interpret the fossils as belonging to a large tree, based on additional fossils identified in Alaska in the 1960s.[3][4]
The probable relationships within Equisetidae are shown in the cladogram below. The position where would be Ibyka has been added.[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Taylor, Thomas N.; Edith L. Taylor. (1993). The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 305–307. ISBN 0-13-651589-4.
- ↑ "Paleontology: World's First Tall Tree". Time. June 16, 1967.
- ↑ Schweitzer, H.-J. (1967). "Die Oberdevon-Flora der Bäreninsel I. Pseudobornia ursina Nathorst". Palaeontographica. 120B: 116–137.
- ↑ Schweitzer, H.-J. (1967). "Ein Riesenschachtelhalm aus dem Oberdevon, Pseudobornia ursina". Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik. 6: 196.
- ↑ "Introduction to the Sphenophyta". University of California Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
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