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The age of the earliest club mosses: the Silurian Baragwanathia flora in Victoria, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

R. B. RICKARDS
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK

Abstract

It is argued that there is overwhelming evidence from a good graptolite record that the earliest club mosses on Earth were of Gorstian (Ludlow, Silurian) age, and that Baragwanathia longifolia Lang & Cookson and its associated flora persisted through the Přídolí and into the early Devonian, showing some changes during this time.

Type
RAPID COMMUNICATION
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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