Moresnetiaceae

Moresnetiaceae is a natural family of seed ferns in the Division Pteridospermatophyta that appears in the North American and European Devonian to Carboniferous coal measures.[3]

Moresnetiaceae
Temporal range: Devonian–Carboniferous
A reconstruction of Stamnostoma huttonense from the Early Carboniferous Cementstone Group at Foulden Newton, Berwickshire, Scotland[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: †Pteridospermatophyta
Class: †Lyginopteridopsida
Order: †Lyginopteridales
Family: †Moresnetiaceae
Genera[2]
  • Elkinsia ovulate cupule
  • Calathospermum ovulate cupule
  • Stamnostoma ovulate cupule
  • Archaeosperma ovulate cupule
  • Kerryia ovulate cupule
  • Pullaritheca ovulate cupule
  • Salpingostoma ovule
  • Hydrasperma ovule
  • Diplopteridium leaves

Description

Moresnetiaceae were shrubs to trees with radiospermic ovules with a lagenostome and aggregated into multiovular cupules.

References
  1. Retallack, G.J. & Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75 (3): 1010–1057. doi:10.2307/2399379. JSTOR 2399379.
  2. Anderson, J.M.; Anderson, H.M & Cleal, C.J. (2007). "Brief history of the gymnosperms: classification, biodiveristy, phytogeography and ecology". Strelitzia. 20: 1–280.
  3. Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A. (1995). Palaeozoic palaeobotany of Britain. Chapman and Hall, London. pp. 295 pp.


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