Tarrantia
Tarrantia is a form genus of small fossil plants of Early Devonian age. The diagnostic characters are naked parallel-sided axes branching isotomously, terminating in solitary elliptical to ovate sporangia with height greater than width.[1] The relationships of the genus are not clear because many anatomical details remain unknown. It has been treated as a possible rhyniophyte.[2]
| Tarrantia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Stem group: | †Rhyniophytes (?) |
| Genus: | †Tarrantia |
| Species: | †T. salopensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tarrantia salopensis Fanning et al. 1992[1] | |
The only known species is from Wales.
References
- Fanning, U.; Edwards, D.; Richardson, J.B. (1992). "A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 109: 161–188. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00264.x.
- Hao, Shougang & Xue, Jinzhuang (2013), The early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan: a contribution to an understanding of the evolution and early diversification of vascular plants, Beijing: Science Press, pp. 47, 329, ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0, retrieved 2019-10-25
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