Biology:Archeocalamitaceae

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Short description: Paleozoic plant family

Archeocalamitaceae
Temporal range: Devonian-Permian Middle Devonian–Lower Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Division:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Archeocalamitaceae
Genera
  • Paragiridia
  • Scrobiculatus
  • Radiatus

Archeocalamitaceae is a family of extinct sphenopsids related to horsetails. Archeocalamite fossils have been found in Siberia, Poland, and Brazil. The fossils date to the Middle Devonian-Carboniferous, lower Carboniferous (Dinantian), and the lower Permian respectively.[1][2][3] Given the distance of the fossil discoveries, archeocalamites may have had a subcosmopolitan distribution. [citation needed]

Taxonomy

Possible relationships archeocalamites has with other sphenopids is shown below.[4]

?†Ibyka

†Pseudobornia ursina

Sphenophyllales

Archeocalamitaceae

Calamitaceae

Equisetaceae

References

Wikidata ☰ Q121625266 entry