Earliest Triassic origin of Isoetes and quillwort evolutionary radiation

Isoetes beestonii new species is the most ancient known species of this living genus. In earliest Triassic shales of the Sydney and Bowen Basins of Australia it is locally abundant as circlets of transversely wrinkled leaves. It was heterosporous with megaspores of Maiturisporites rewanensis and mic...

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Published in:Journal of Paleontology
Main Author: Retallack, Gregory J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1997
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000039524
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022336000039524