Tarrantia is a form genus of small fossil plants of Early Devonian age. The diagnostic characters are naked parallel-sided axes branching isotomously, terminating in solitary elliptical to ovate sporangia with height greater than width.[1] The relationships of the genus are not clear because many anatomical details remain unknown. It has been treated as a possible rhyniophyte.[2]
| Tarrantia Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Stem group: | †Rhyniophytes (?) |
| Genus: | †Tarrantia U.Fanning, D.Edwards & J.B.Richardson, 1992 |
| Species: | †T. salopensis
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Tarrantia salopensis U.Fanning, D.Edwards & J.B.Richardson, 1992[1]
| |
The only known species is from Wales.
References edit
- ^ a b Fanning, U.; Edwards, D.; Richardson, J.B. (1992). "A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 161–188. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00264.x.
- ^ Hao, Shougang & Xue, Jinzhuang (2013), The early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan: a contribution to an understanding of the evolution and early diversification of vascular plants, Beijing: Science Press, pp. 47, 329, ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0, retrieved 2019-10-25
 | This article related to a Devonian plant is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |