Aberlemnia

Aberlemnia
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Streptophyta
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Polysporangiophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Genus: †Aberlemnia
Gonez & Gerrienne (2010)[1]
Type species
Aberlemnia caledonica
Gonez & Gerrienne (2010)
Species
  • A. bohemica (Schweitzer (1980)) Sakala, Pšenička & Kraft (2018)
  • A. caledonica (Edwards (1970)) Gonez & Gerrienne (2010)[1]

Aberlemnia is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (around 420 to 390 million years ago), which consisted of leafless stems with terminal spore-forming organs (sporangia). Fossils found in Scotland were initially described as Cooksonia caledonica.[2] A later review, which included new and more complete fossils from Brazil, showed that the specimens did not fit the circumscription of the genus Cooksonia; accordingly a new genus Aberlemnia was proposed.[1]

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