Supaia Explained

Supaia is an extinct genus of fern-like plants, possibly seed ferns.^[1] Species belonging to the genus lived during the Permian in North America,^[2] east Asia,^[3] and Madagascar.^[4] The leaves were adapted to minimize water loss, and the genus is thought to have grown as small trees (up to 4m (13feet) in height) in a mudflat environment subject to frequent drought.^[5]

Notes and References

1. DiMichele . William A. . Chaney . Dan S. . Nelson . W. John . Lucas . Spencer G. . Looy . Cindy V. . Quick . Karen . Jun . Wang . A low diversity, seasonal tropical landscape dominated by conifers and peltasperms: Early Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . July 2007 . 145 . 3–4 . 249–273 . 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.11.003.
2. Lucas . Spencer G. . Krainer . Karl . Chaney . Dan S. . DiMichele . William A. . Voigt . Sebastian . Berman . David S. . Henrici . Amy C. . The Lower Permian Abo Formation in Central New Mexico . New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin . 2013 . 59 . 161–180 . 10088/20977.
3. Heilongjiang Stratigraphic Group. 1979. The Stratigraphic Tables of Heilongjiang. Geology Press 1-300
4. H. . Besairie . M. . Collignon . 1972 . Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires . Annales Géologiques de Madagascar . 35 . 1–463.
5. DiMichele . William A. . Lucas . Spencer G. . Krainer . Karl . Vertebrate trackways among a stand of Supaia White plants on an early Permian floodplain, New Mexico . Journal of Paleontology . July 2012 . 86 . 4 . 584–594 . 10.1666/11-137R.1. 43781256 .