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Isoetaceae

Description

Isoetaceae is a family including living quillworts (Isoetes) and comparable extinct herbaceous lycopsids (Tomiostrobus).


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoetaceae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)3074https://www.gbif.org/species/3074
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)54753https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54753
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Lycopodiopsida : Isoetales : Isoetaceae
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Plantae : Pteridophyta : Lycopsida : Isoetaceae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
kingdomPlantaeHaeckel 1866
subkingdomEmbryophytaCrane et al. 2004
phylumPteridophytaHaeckel 1875
classLycopsida
familyIsoetaceaeDumortier 1829
Scientific NameIsoetaceae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Isoetaceaefamilybelongs to Isoetalesstated without evidenceHickey, 1977
Isoetaceaefamilybelongs to Lycopsidastated without evidenceMcIver and Basinger, 1993
Isoetaceaefamilybelongs to IsoetalesimpliedTaylor et al., 2008
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)7
Extant Size (PBDB)2 (29%)
First Recorded Appearance247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Primary Reference (PBDB)D.J. Mabberley. 2000. The Plant-Book, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.
Common Name(s) Quillworts, Isoétacées, Quillwort Family, Braxengräsväxter, Biesvarenfamilie, Brachsenkrautgewächse
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoetaceae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Echinosporis ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)1583.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous		66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Isoetes
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		32130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		0 Ma
Extant
Isoetites ✝
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		22247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic		55.8 Ma
Eocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1829Isoetaceae Dumortier
1977Isoetaceae Hickey
1993Isoetaceae McIver and Basinger
2000Isoetaceae Mabberley
2008Isoetaceae Taylor et al. p. 1028
1829Isoetaceae Dumortier
1977Isoetaceae Hickey
1993Isoetaceae McIver and Basinger
2000Isoetaceae Mabberley
2008Isoetaceae Taylor et al. p. 1028

References

Mabberley D.J. (2000) The Plant-Book, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.
Hickey L. J. (1977) Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota, The Geological Society of America Memoir 150, 1-183
McIver E. E., Basinger J. F. (1993) Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, Palaeontographica Canadiana 10, 1-85
Taylor E., Taylor T., et al (2008) Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, 1-1230
Van der Meijden, R. (2005) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Xian-Chun Zhang, and Harald Schneider, 2011: A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa, vol. 19. 7-54. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Ruggiero M, Gordon D, Bailly N, Kirk P, Nicolson D (2011) The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
USDA, National Genetic Resources Program (2011) Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
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!
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