- may
raise both the
zosterophylls and the
Lycophytina sensu Banks to the rank of division:
Division Zosterophyllophyta =
zosterophylls, zosterophyllophytes...
-
include zosterophylls as well as
extant lycophytes and
their closest extinct relatives,
while others use
these names to
exclude zosterophylls. The name...
- and
their closest extinct relatives are
generally believed to be the
zosterophylls, a
paraphyletic or
plesion group.
Ignoring some
smaller extinct taxa...
-
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...
- ISBN 978-0-521-23315-6,
quoted in Waggoner, Ben (1996),
Introduction to the
Zosterophylls,
archived from the
original on 2011-01-26 Arens, N.C.; Strömberg, C...
- Gondwana, to Australia. In the late Silurian, two
distinctive lineages,
zosterophylls and rhyniophytes, had
colonised the tropics. The
former evolved into...
-
developed from the side of
early stems (such as
those found in the
Zosterophylls).
Outgrowths of the
protostele (the
central vasculature)
later emerged...
- in the
Barinophytaceae in
their Sawdoniales, well
nested within the
zosterophylls. A
summary cladogram produced by
Crane et al. in 2004,
shows Protobarinophyton...
-
plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta –
rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta –
zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta –
clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta –
trimerophytes Polypodiophyta...
-
terminal sporangia (e.g., Cooksonia, Rhynia) with
centrarch xylem;
zosterophylls comprised plants with
lateral sporangia that
split distally (away from...
