Gosslingia

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Gosslingia
Temporal range: Early Devonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Plesion: †Zosterophylls
Order: †incertae sedis
Family: †Gosslingiaceae
Genus: †Gosslingia

Gosslingia was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Fossils have been from the Lochkovian to the Pragian, 419 to 408 million years ago.[1]

A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Gosslingia in the core of a

lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[3]

lycophytes
       

† Hicklingia

 †basal groups 

Adoketophyton, Discalis, Distichophytum (=Rebuchia), Gumuia, Huia, Zosterophyllum myretonianum, Z. llanoveranum, Z. fertile

 †'core' zosterophylls 

Zosterophyllum divaricatum, Tarella, Oricilla, Gosslingia, Hsua, Thrinkophyton, Protobarinophyton, Barinophyton obscurum, B. citrulliforme, Sawdonia, Deheubarthia, Konioria, Anisophyton, Serrulacaulis, Crenaticaulis

 †basal groups 

Nothia, Zosterophyllum
 deciduum

 lycopsids 

extant and extinct members

Hao and Xue in 2013 used the absence of terminal

circinate vernation (initially curled up).[1] Kenrick and Crane in 1997 also placed the genus in the family Gosslingiaceae, but they place this family in the order Sawdoniales.[4]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0
    . Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  2. ISSN 0094-8373
    .
  3. PMID 21652317
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  4. ISBN 978-1-56098-730-7
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