Description: Specimen: Extinct liana-like flower shaped Pteridophyte Sphenophyllum cuneifolium ( Sternberg ) ZeillerLocality: Poland, GZW Upper Silesia Coal Basin Stratigraphy: Upper Carboniferous – Pennsylvanian - Westphalian B – Orzeskie BedsAge: ca. 310/315 myoMatrix dimensions: ca. 6,0 x 4,0 x 1,5 cmDescription:Nice, extinct vine liana-like, creeping horsetail fossil Sphenophyllum cuneifolium ( Sternberg ) Zeiller. Sphenophyllum is a genus of extinct plants that lived from the end of the Devonian Period to the beginning of the Triassic Period (about 360 to 251 million years ago); it is most commonly reconstructed as a shrub or a creeping vine. Sphenophyllum had a strong node-internode architecture, which has led some authorities to ally it with modern horsetails. Branches and leaves were arranged in whorls at each node much like the later Calamites; however, the leaves of Sphenophyllum were triangular in shape. Spore-bearing cones were also similar to those of Calamites and modern horsetails; however, Sphenophyllum lacked the hollow central stem that characterizes horsetail relatives because its tracheids, or water-conducting cells, were arranged in a central triangle surrounded by wood. Sphenophyllum grew in floodplain swamps, away from the margins of rivers. Systematic:Division: Tracheophyta (Sphenopsida)Class: Equisetosidae Order: EquisetalesFamily: CalamitaceaeGenus: Sphenophyllum Brongniart 1828Species: Sphenophyllum cuneifolium ( Sternberg) Zeiller
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