Dicroidium

Dicroidium
Temporal range: Late PermianSinemurian
Leaf impression of Dicroidium zuberi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Order: Corystospermales
Family: Corystospermaceae
Genus: Dicroidium
Gothan (1912)
Species
  • Dicroidium crassinervis Australia, Antarctica, South Africa
  • Dicroidium coriaceum, Australia, Antarctica, South Africa
  • Dicroidium dubium Australia, Antarctica, South Africa
  • Dicroidium odontopteroides, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, India, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil[1]
  • Dicroidium stelznerianum, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, South Africa, Argentina[2]
Synonyms
  • Johnstonia Walkom
  • Harringtonia Frenguelli
  • Dicroidiopsis Frenguelli
  • Diplasiophyllum Frenguelli
  • Zuberia Frenguelli
  • Xylopteris Frenguelli
  • Tetraptilon Frenguelli
  • Hoegia Townrow
  • Jordaniopteris Anderson

Dicroidium is an extinct genus of fork-leaved seed plants. It is the archetypal genus of the corystosperms, an extinct group of seed plants, often called "seed ferns", assigned to the order Corystospermales or Umkomasiales. Species of Dicroidium were widely distributed and dominant over Gondwana during the Triassic (252 to 201 million years ago). Their fossils are known from South Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent and Antarctica.

  1. ^ THE TRIASSIC TAPHOFLORA FROM PARANA BASIN, SOUTHERN BRAZIL
  2. ^ Retallack G.J. (1985). "Triassic fossil plant fragments from marine rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 15: 1–26. doi:10.1080/03036758.1985.10421741.
  3. ^ Passo das Tropas, Santa Maria, RS Marco bioestratigráfico triássico na evolução paleoflorística do Gondwana na Bacia do Paraná.