Nematoplexus

Nematoplexus rhyniensis is a fossil known from the Rhynie chert assigned to the nematophytes.[2] It comprises a loose mass of coily aseptate tubes.[3] Tubes which may have originated from a Nematoplexus-like plant are known from earlier Silurian sediments.[4]

Nematoplexus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae (?)
Phylum: "Nematophyta"
Class: Nematophytina
Order: Nematophytales
Family: Nematothalaceae
Genus: Nematoplexus
Lyon 1962[1]

References

  1. Lyon, A. G. (1962). "On the fragmentary remains of an organism referable to the nematophytales, from the Rhynie chert, Nematoplexus rhyniensis gen. et. sp. nov". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 65 (4): 79. doi:10.1017/S0080456800012382. ISSN 0263-5933.
  2. Fayers, S.R.; Trewin, N.H. (2007). "A new crustacean from the Early Devonian Rhynie chert, Aberdeenshire, Scotland". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 93 (4): 355–382. doi:10.1017/S026359330000047X.
  3. Burgess, N. D.; Edwards, D. (1988). "A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to Prototaxites Dawson". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 97 (2): 189–203. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x.
  4. Williams, D. M.; Harkin, J.; Higgs, K. T. (1996). "Implications of new microfloral evidence from the Clew Bay Complex for Silurian relationships in the western Irish Caledonides". Journal of the Geological Society. 153 (5): 771. Bibcode:1996JGSoc.153..771W. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.153.5.0771.


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