Tarrantia

Tarrantia is a form genus of small fossil plants of Early Devonian age. The diagnostic characters are naked parallel-sided axes branching isotomously, terminating in solitary elliptical to ovate sporangia with height greater than width.[1] The relationships of the genus are not clear because many anatomical details remain unknown. It has been treated as a possible rhyniophyte.[2]

Tarrantia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Stem group: †Rhyniophytes (?)
Genus: †Tarrantia
U.Fanning, D.Edwards & J.B.Richardson, 1992
Species:
†T. salopensis
Binomial name
†Tarrantia salopensis
U.Fanning, D.Edwards & J.B.Richardson, 1992[1]

The only known species is from Wales.

References
  1. Fanning, U.; Edwards, D.; Richardson, J.B. (1992). "A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 161–188. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00264.x.
  2. 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, pp. 47, 329, ISBN 978-7-03-036616-0, retrieved 2019-10-25


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