Drepanophycales

Drepanophycales
Temporal range: late Silurian–Devonian
Life restoration of Asteroxylon mackiei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Order: †Drepanophycales
Novák, 1961[1]
Families

Asteroxylaceae
Drepanophycaceae

Drepanophycales is an order of extinct lycophyte plants of Late Silurian to Late Devonian age (around 430 to 360 million years ago), found in North America, China, Russia, Europe, and Australia. Sometimes known as the Asteroxylales or Baragwanathiales.

  1. ^ Novák, F.A. (1961), Vyšší rostliny. Tracheophyta, Prague: Nakladatelství Československé Akademie Věd, p. 84