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Lepidodendron aculeatum ✝
| Description | Lepidodendron is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, tree-like plants, also known as scale trees, related to the quillworts and lycopsids (club mosses). They were part of the coal forest flora. They sometimes reached heights of over 30 metres (100 feet), 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_aculeatum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Lycopodiopsida : Lepidodendraceae : Lepidodendron : Lepidodendron aculeatum | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Lepidodendraceae : Lepidodendron : Lepidodendron aculeatum | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Generic Name | Lepidodendron | ||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg, 1820 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 359 - 323 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 311 - 299 Ma Carboniferous | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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_aculeatum |
Fossil Distribution
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1820 | Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg |
| 2005 | Lepidodendron aculeatum Dilcher et al. p. 155 |
References
| Dilcher D. L., Lott T. A., et al (2005) Fossil plants from the Union Chapel Mine, Alabama, Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama |
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!
