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Lepidodendron ✝
| Description | Lepidodendron – also known as the scale trees – is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, tree-like plants related to the isoetes (quillworts) and lycopsids (club mosses). They were part of the coal forest flora. They sometimes reached heights of over 30 metres (100 ft), and the trunks were often over 1 m (3.3 ft) in diameter. They thrived during the Carboniferous Period (about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya (million years ago) and were found until the Late Triassic, about 205 Ma) before going extinct. Sometimes erroneously called "giant club mosses", the genus was actually more closely related to modern quillworts than to modern club mosses. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidodendron, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||
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| Source Data |
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| Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Lycopodiopsida : Lepidodendraceae : Lepidodendron | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Lepidodendraceae : Lepidodendron | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Lepidodendron Sternberg, 1820 | |||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 388 - 383 Ma Devonian | |||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 228 - 209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. L. Dilcher, T. A. Lott, and B. J. Axsmith. 2005. Fossil plants from the Union Chapel Mine, Alabama. Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama | |||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidodendron |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Lepidodendron aculeatum ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 36 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 311 Ma Carboniferous | |
| Lepidodendron andrewsi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron batovii ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Lepidodendron beaumontianum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron beyrichii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron boylensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron brittsii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron chotavense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron corrugatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron cuspidatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron gaspianum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron henbesti species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron hickii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron intermedium species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron keuperinum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron maktabense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron mundum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron nothum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron novalbaniense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron obovatum ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 25 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 315 Ma Carboniferous | |
| Lepidodendron occidentale species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron phlegmaria species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron purduei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron rhombicum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron richteri species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron rigidum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron rimosum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron saalfeldense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron scobiniformis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron scutatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron spenceri species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron subclypeatum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron wedingtonense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidodendron yohoense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Phillipsia K.B.Presl, 1838 | GBIF | genus | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Lycopodiopsida : Lepidodendraceae : Phillipsia |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1820 | Lepidodendron Sternberg |
| 1838 | Aspidiaria Presl |
| 1992 | Lepidodendron Tidwell et al. p. 1014 |
| 2005 | Lepidodendron Dilcher et al. p. 155 |
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!
Alabama, USA