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(Redirected from Protosphagnales) Extinct genus of mosses

Protosphagnum
Temporal range: Permian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Sphagnopsida
Order: †Protosphagnales
Neuburg
Family: †Protosphagnaceae
Ignatov
Genus: †Protosphagnum
Nejburg
Species: †P. nervatum
Binomial name
†Protosphagnum nervatum
Nejburg

Protosphagnum nervatum is the only known species of order Protosphagnales. It is only known from the Permian fossil record. In many ways, it resembles the living moss genus Sphagnum, though its leaf cells are not as strongly dimorphic as in Sphagnum.

References

  1. Nejburg, M. F. (1960). "Leafy mosses from the Permian deposits of Angarida". Trudy Geol. Inst. Leningr. 19: 1–104.
  2. Oostendorp, Cora (1987). The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic. Bryophytum Bibliotheca. Vol. 34. ISBN 3-443-62006-X.
Taxon identifiers
Protosphagnum
Protosphagnum nervatum
Protosphagnaceae
Protosphagnales


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