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Sphaerocarpaceae
Description | Sphaerocarpaceae is a family of liverworts known as bottle liverworts. Approximately ten species are included in this family, most of them in the genus Sphaerocarpos, but one additional species in the genus Geothallus. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaerocarpaceae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Marchantiophyta : Marchantiopsida : Sphaerocarpales : Sphaerocarpaceae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scientific Name | Sphaerocarpaceae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaerocarpaceae |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Geothallus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Sphaerocarpos genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Crandall-Stotler, B., R. E. Stotler, and D. G. Long, 2009: Phylogeny and classification of the Marchantiophyta. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, vol. 66, no. 1. 155-198. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Crandall-Stotler, Barbara, and Raymond E. Stotler / Shaw, A. Jonathan, and Bernard Goffinet, eds., 2000: Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta. Bryophyte Biology. 21-70. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Crandall-Stotler, Barbara, Raymond E. Stotler, and D. G. Long / Goffinet, B., and A. J. Shaw, eds., 2008: Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta. Bryophyte Biology, Second Edition. 1-54. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!