Bathurstia

Short description: Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants

Bathurstia

Temporal range: Pragian

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Lycophytes
Plesion:  | †Zosterophylls
Genus:  | †Bathurstia

Bathurstia was a genus of scrambling Silu-Devonian land plant with isotomously branching axes that grew to heights of 30 cm.[1] It is aligned with the Zosterophylls, and produced Calamospora-type spores.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Boyce, C.K. (2008). "How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage". Paleobiology 34 (2): 179–194. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0179:HGWCTI2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0094-8373.
2. ↑ Kotyk, M. E.; Basinger, J. F. (2000). "The Early Devonian (Pragian) zosterophyll Bathurstia denticulata Hueber". Canadian Journal of Botany 78 (2): 193–207. doi:10.1139/cjb-78-2-193.

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