Drepanophycus

Drepanophycus
Temporal range: Devonian:
Lochkovian - Frasnian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Order: Drepanophycales
Family: Drepanophycaceae
Genus: Drepanophycus
Göpp., 1852
Species
  • Drepanophycus spinaeformis Göpp. (Type species)
  • Drepanophycus crepini (Gilkinet)
  • Drepanophycus qujingensis C.S.Li & D.Edwards
  • Drepanophycus gaspianus (Dawson) Kräusel & Weyland
  • Drepanophycus spinosus

Another species has been described: Drepanophycus colophyllus Grierson & Banks - but this has since been removed to the genus Haskinsia.

Drepanophycus is a genus of extinct plants of the division Lycopodiophyta of Early to Late Devonian age (around 420 to 370 million years ago), found in Eastern Canada and Northeast US, China, Russia, Egypt and various parts of Northern Europe and Britain.