Protosphagnum

Protosphagnum nervatum is the only known species of order Protosphagnales. It is only known from the Permian fossil record. In many ways, it resembles the living moss genus Sphagnum, though its leaf cells are not as strongly dimorphic as in Sphagnum.^[2]

Protosphagnum Temporal range: Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Sphagnopsida
Order:	†Protosphagnales Neuburg
Family:	†Protosphagnaceae Ignatov
Genus:	†Protosphagnum Nejburg
Species:	†P. nervatum
Binomial name
†Protosphagnum nervatum Nejburg[1]