Adoketophyton
Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adoketophyton is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian stage, around 410 million years ago). The plant was first described in 1977 based on fossil specimens from the Posongchong Formation, Wenshan district, Yunnan, China. These were originally named Zosterophyllum subverticillatum; later the species was transferred to a new genus as Adoketophyton subverticillatum.[4] One cladistic analysis suggested that it is a lycophyte, related to the zosterophylls.[5] Other researchers regard its placement within the vascular plants as uncertain.[4][6]
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Adoketophyton | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes (?) |
Genus: | †Adoketophyton C.S.Li & D.Edwards (1992)[1] |
Type species | |
Adoketophyton subverticillatum (Li & Cai (1977)) Li & Edwards (1992) | |
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