Furcula granulifer Temporal range: Late Triassic (Rhaetian),
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Venation plus diagrams interpreting the venation of Furcula | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Order: | †Peltaspermales |
Genus: | †Furcula Harris, 1932[1] |
Species: | †F. granulifer
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Binomial name | |
†Furcula granulifer Harris, 1932
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Furcula is a genus of extinct plant from Late Triassic Greenland. It contains one species, F. granulifer. The leaves of Furcula have complex net-like veins like those of angiosperms (flowering plants); because of this, it was long considered a possible stem-group angiosperm. However, a recent reinvestigation suggests it is a peltasperm (a type of "seed fern") that convergently evolved angiosperm-like veins.[2][3]