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Protolepidodendrales

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Extinct order of spore-bearing plants

Protolepidodendrales
Leclercqia complexa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Protolepidodendrales
Families

The Protolepidodendrales are an extinct order of lycopsids that flourished from the Devonian to the lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) periods.

Leclercqia is one of the best-known genera. Protolepidodendropsis is another genus included in this order.

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Edith L.; Taylor, Thomas N.; Krings, Michael (2009). Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Academic Press. pp. 271–74. ISBN 9780080557830.
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Protolepidodendrales


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