Resilitheca
| Resilitheca Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Stem group: | †Rhyniophytes (?) |
| Genus: | †Resilitheca D.Edwards et al., 1995 |
| Species: | †R. salopensis
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| †Resilitheca salopensis D.Edwards et al., 1995
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Resilitheca is a genus of land plant known from kidney-shaped sporangia.[1] It is known from charcoalified Early Devonian deposits, its type locality being the Brown Clee Hill lagerstätten.[2] It was listed as a rhyniophyte by Hao and Xue in 2013.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Edwards, D.; Fanning, U.; Davies, K. L.; Axe, L.; Richardson, J. B. (2008). "Exceptional preservation in Lower Devonian coalified fossils from the Welsh Borderland: a new genus based on reniform sporangia lacking thickened borders". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 117 (3): 233–254. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00454.x.
- ^ Glasspool, I.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L. (2006). "Charcoal in the Early Devonian: A wildfire-derived Konservat–Lagerstätte". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 142 (3–4): 131–136. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.021.
- ^ 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. p. 329. ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
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