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Pleuromeiaceae
Description | Pleuromeiaceae is an extinct family of plants related to living quillworts (Isoetes), but with tall stems and terminal compact cones. They were especially widespread globally in the aftermath of the Permian Triassic mass extinctions. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuromeiaceae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Lycopodiopsida : Pleuromeiaceae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Pleuromeiaceae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuromeiaceae |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Pleuromeia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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!