Culullitheca Explained

Culullitheca was a genus of land plant with branching axes.[1] It is known from charcoalified Early Devonian deposits, its type locality being the Brown Clee Hill lagerstätten.[2] Its spores formed permanent dyads.[3]

Notes and References

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  2. Glasspool . I. . Edwards . D. . Axe . L. . Charcoal in the Early Devonian: A wildfire-derived Konservat–Lagerstätte . 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.021 . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . 142 . 131–136 . 2006 . 3–4 .
  3. 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1998.tb02092.x . Wellman . C. H. . Edwards . D. . Axe . L. . Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland . Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society . 127 . 2 . 117–147 . 1998 . free .

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