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Anthocerotophyta
| Description | Hornworts are a group of non-vascular plants constituting the division Anthocerotophyta. The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte. As in mosses and liverworts, the flattened, green plant body of a hornwort is the gametophyte plant. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocerotophyta, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||
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| Rank | phylum (GBIF) unranked clade (PBDB) | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Anthocerotophyta | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Anthocerotophyta | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Anthocerotophyta | ||||||||||
| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 2 (100%) | ||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. M. Jarzen. 1982. Palynology of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Campanian) Alberta. Syllogeus 38:1-69 | ||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Hornworts, NÃ¥lfruktsmossor | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocerotophyta |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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 Anthocerotopsidaclass | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 28 | 28.4 Ma Oligocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Leiosporocerotopsida class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Anthocerotaceae family | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Notothylites genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
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!
