- The
zosterophylls are a
group of
extinct land
plants that
first appeared in the
Silurian period. The
taxon was
first established by
Banks in 1968 as the...
- well as the
informal "lycophyte" may be used to
include the
extinct zosterophylls or to
exclude them.
Lycophytes reproduce by
spores and have alternation...
- and
their closest extinct relatives are
generally believed to be the
zosterophylls, a
paraphyletic or
plesion group.
Ignoring some
smaller extinct taxa...
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thickened outer wall of
guard cells There is
agreement that
Sawdonia was a
zosterophyll – a
group of
plants on the line of
evolution leading to the
modern lycopodiopsids...
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terminal sporangia (e.g., Cooksonia, Rhynia) with
centrarch xylem;
zosterophylls comprised plants with
lateral sporangia that
split distally (away from...
- Gondwana, to Australia. In the late Silurian, two
distinctive lineages,
zosterophylls and rhyniophytes, had
colonised the tropics. The
former evolved into...
- Kazakhstan.
Jugumella was
considered a
possible zosterophyll in a 2006 study. It was
listed as a
zosterophyll by Hao and Xue in 2013. Raymond, A.; Gensel...
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plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta –
rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta –
zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta –
clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta –
trimerophytes Polypodiophyta...
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arranged in
lateral positions. It is the type
genus for the
group known as
zosterophylls,
thought to be part of the
lineage from
which modern lycophytes evolved...
- the
sides of stems.
Wenshania is part of the
broadly defined group of
zosterophylls. The
sporophyte of
Wenshania zhichangensis, the type
species of the...
