Sagenopteris phillipsii
Appearance
Sagenopteris phillipsii Temporal range:
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Sagenopteris phillipsii leaves, Middle Jurassic, Gristhorpe Bed, Cloughton Formation, Cayton Bay, Yorkshire. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | †Pteridospermatophyta |
Order: | †Caytoniales |
Family: | †Caytoniaceae |
Genus: | †Sagenopteris |
Species: | †S. phillipsii
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Binomial name | |
†Sagenopteris phillipsii (Brongn.) Presl
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Sagenopteris phillipsii are leaves of extinct species of seed ferns.
Description
[edit]Sagenopteris phillipsii has narrow, palmately arranged leaves with anastomosing venation
Whole plant reconstructions
[edit]Different organs attributed to the same original plant can be reconstructed from co-occurrence at the same locality and from similarities in the stomatal apparatus and other anatomical peculiarities of fossilized cuticles.
- Sagenopteris phillipsii may have been produced by the same plant as Caytonia nathorstii (ovulate organs) and Caytonanthus arberi (pollen organs).
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