Bitelaria
Extinct genus of vascular plants
| Bitelaria Temporal range: Early Devonian–Mid Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Genus: | †Bitelaria Istchenko and Istchenko, 1979 |
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Bitelaria is a monospecific genus of extinct vascular plants described from outcrops of the Early Devonian Campbellton Formation in New Brunswick, Canada and Middle Devonian outcrops in the Voronezh region of Russia.[1] B. dubjanski is characterized by thick-walled, dichotomously branched tubular axes and thick cuticles with possible lenticel-like eruptions. The unusual external morphology of the plant distinguishes it from other vascular plants and is thus placed in Tracheophyta incertae sedis.[1]
See also
- Devonian
- List of Early Devonian land plants
- Polysporangiophytes
References
- ^ a b Johnson, N. G. (1992). "The cuticular epithelium of Bitelaria, an Early Devonian vascular plant from New Brunswick, Canada". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 153 (4): 646–657. doi:10.1086/297085. JSTOR 2995584. S2CID 85213585.
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Early land flora
- Evolutionary history of plants
- Rhynie chert
- Vascular plant, Cooksonia
- Tree, Wattieza
- Lycophytes, the Drepanophycales and the zosterophylls
- Fungus fossil, Ornatifilum
- Lichen, Spongiophyton
- Cuticular remains: Bitelaria
- Cosmochlaina
- Nematothallus
- Orestovia
- Protosalvinia
- Spongiophyton
- Other: Pachytheca
- Prototaxites.
- Green algae: Charophyta, from which land plants evolved
- Chaetocladus, an early alga
Bitelaria