Lycopodolica

Lycopodolica is a genus of extinct plants of the Late Silurian (Přídolí, around 430 to 420 million years ago). Fossils were found in the Rashkov Beds in Podolia in modern Ukraine. Plants there are preserved as compressions without internal detail. Lycopodolica had stems (axes) which appear to have branched and which are covered with lax, hair- or thread-like outgrowths.[3] Considered to be a lycophyte, Lycopodolica differs from Baragwanathia in the nature of its outgrowths or enations.[4] It was listed as a lycopsid by Hao and Xue in 2013.[5]

Lycopodolica
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Genus: †Lycopodolica
T.A. Ishchenko[1][2]
Species
  • L. tsegelnjucki T.A. Ishchenko[1][2]

References
  1. Ishchenko, T.A. (1969), "The Cooksonian paleoflora in the Skal'skii Horizon of Podoleia and its stratigraphical significance", Paläontol. Z. (in Russian), 29: 101–109, cited in Raymond, Gensel & Stein 2006, where his surname is transcribed as "Istchenko"
  2. Ishchenko, T.A. (1975), Pozdnesiluriĭskaia flora Podolii (The Late Silurian flora of Podolia) (in Russian), Kiev: Naukova Dumka, OCLC 13126782, cited in Edwards & Rogerson 1979
  3. Edwards, D. & Rogerson, E.C.W. (1979), "New Records of Fertile Rhyniophytina from the Late Silurian of Wales" (PDF), Geological Magazine, 116 (2): 93–98, Bibcode:1979GeoM..116...93E, doi:10.1017/S0016756800042503
  4. Raymond, A.; Gensel, P. & Stein, W.E. (2006), "Phytogeography of Late Silurian macrofloras", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 142 (3–4): 165–192, doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.02.005
  5. 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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