Pleuromeiaceae

Pleuromeiaceae
Temporal range: Triassic
Reconstruction of Pleuromeia sternbergii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Isoetales
Family: Pleuromeiaceae
Genera

Pleuromeiaceae is an extinct family of plants related to living quillworts (Isoetes), in the order Isoetales but with tall stems and terminal compact cones. They were especially widespread globally during the Early and Middle Triassic in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.[1]

  1. ^ Retallack, Gregory J. (2013). "Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises". Gondwana Research. 24: 90–103. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.003.