Odonax

Short description: Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants

Odonax

Temporal range: Early Devonian

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Lycophytes
Plesion:  | †Zosterophylls
Genus:  | †Odonax
P.Gerrienne, 1996
Species:  |

†O. borealis

Binomial name
†Odonax borealis

P.Gerrienne, 1966

Odonax was a genus of Early Devonian (Early Emsian) zosterophyll with branching axes.[1] It bore kidney-shaped sporangia and spiny branches.[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. ↑ Gerrienne, P (1996). "Lower Devonian plant remains from Marchin (northern margin of Dinant Synclinorium, Belgium). IV. Odonax borealis gen. et sp. nov". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93 (1–4): 89–106. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(95)00121-2.

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