Biology:Eorhynia

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Short description: Extinct genus of Silurian plants

Eorhynia
Temporal range: Late Silurian
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Stem group: Rhyniophytes
Genus: Eorhynia
T.A. Ishchenko (1975)[1]
Species
  • E. primigena T.A. Ishchenko (1975)[1]

Eorhynia is a genus of extinct plants of the Late Silurian (Template:Pridoli, around 430 to 420 million years ago) which somewhat resemble Rhynia. Fossils were found in Podolia in modern Ukraine.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Ishchenko, T.A. (1975) (in Russian), Pozdnesiluriĭskaia flora Podolii (The Late Silurian flora of Podolia), Kiev: Naukova Dumka, OCLC 13126782 , cited in Edwards, D.; Rogerson, E.C.W. (1979), "New Records of Fertile Rhyniophytina from the Late Silurian of Wales", Geological Magazine 116 (2): 93–98, doi:10.1017/S0016756800042503, Bibcode1979GeoM..116...93E, http://orca.cf.ac.uk/10902/1/Edwards%201979.pdf 
  2. Cai, C.-Y.; Dou, Y.-W.; Edwards, D. (1993), "New Observations on a Pridoli Plant Assemblage from North Xinjiang, Northwest China, with Comments on Its Evolutionary and Palaeogeographical Significance", Geological Magazine 130 (2): 155–170, doi:10.1017/S0016756800009821, Bibcode1993GeoM..130..155C, http://orca.cf.ac.uk/10852/1/Cai%201993.pdf 

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