Dicroidium odontopteroides

Dicroidium odontopteroides
Temporal range: Triassic
Dicroidium odontopteroides fossil leaf, Late Triassic Molteno Formation near Birds River South Africa.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Order: Corystospermales
Family: Corystospermaceae
Genus: Dicroidium
Species:
D. odontopteroides
Binomial name
Dicroidium odontopteroides
(Morris) Gothan

Dicroidium odontopteroides was a common and widespread species of Dicroidium known from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Antarctica. The species was first discovered in Triassic sediments of Tasmania and described by the palaeontologist John Morris in 1845.[1]

  1. ^ Strzelecki, P.E. (1845). Physical descriptions of New South Wales and van Diemens Land. Brown, Green and Longmans, London. pp. 422 pp.