Resilitheca

Resilitheca is a genus of land plant known from kidney-shaped sporangia.[1] It is known from charcoalified Early Devonian deposits, its type locality being the Brown Clee Hill lagerstätten.[2] It was listed as a rhyniophyte by Hao and Xue in 2013.[3]

Resilitheca
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Stem group: †Rhyniophytes (?)
Genus: †Resilitheca
D.Edwards et al., 1995
Species:
†R. salopensis
Binomial name
†Resilitheca salopensis
D.Edwards et al., 1995

References
  1. Edwards, D.; Fanning, U.; Davies, K. L.; Axe, L.; Richardson, J. B. (2008). "Exceptional preservation in Lower Devonian coalified fossils from the Welsh Borderland: a new genus based on reniform sporangia lacking thickened borders". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 117 (3): 233–254. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00454.x.
  2. Glasspool, I.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L. (2006). "Charcoal in the Early Devonian: A wildfire-derived Konservat–Lagerstätte". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 142 (3–4): 131–136. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.021.
  3. Hao, Shougang & Xue, Jinzhuang (2013). The early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan: a contribution to an understanding of the evolution and early diversification of vascular plants. Beijing: Science Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0. Retrieved 2019-10-25.


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