Culullitheca

Culullitheca
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Superdivision: Polysporangiomorpha
Division: incertae sedis
Form taxon: Cooksonioidea
Genus: Culullitheca
Wellman et al. 1998

Culullitheca was a genus of land plant with branching axes.[1] It is known from charcoalified Early Devonian deposits, its type locality being the Brown Clee Hill lagerstätten.[2] Its spores formed permanent dyads.[3]

References

  1. Boyce, C.K. (2008). "How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage". Paleobiology. 34: 179. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0179:HGWCTI]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0094-8373.
  2. Glasspool, I.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L. (2006). "Charcoal in the Early Devonian: A wildfire-derived Konservat–Lagerstätte". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 142: 131. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.021.
  3. Wellman, C. H.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L. (1998). "Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 127 (2): 117–147. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1998.tb02092.x.


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