Sigillaria | |
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Bark fragment from Sigillaria mamillaris sp. Estonian Museum of Natural History, Tallinn, Estonia. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Lycophytes |
Class: | Lycopodiopsida |
Order: | †Lepidodendrales |
Family: | †Sigillariaceae |
Genus: | †Sigillaria Brongniart (1822) |
Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent lycophyte, known from the Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is related to the more famous Lepidodendron, and more distantly to modern quillworts.