Tarella Explained

Tarella was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.^[1] Fossils came from Pragian age rocks .

A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Tarella in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).^[2] Hao and Xue in 2013 listed the genus as a zosterophyll.

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• Cladogram from

Notes and References

1. Boyce . C.K. . How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage . Paleobiology . 34 . 179–194 . 2008 . 2 . 10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0179:HGWCTI]2.0.CO;2 . 0094-8373 .
2. Crane . P.R. . Herendeen . P. . Friis . E.M. . 2004 . Fossils and plant phylogeny . American Journal of Botany . 91 . 1683–99 . 10.3732/ajb.91.10.1683 . 10 . 21652317. free .