Pleuromeia dubia Temporal range: Early Triassic |
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Reconstructions of extinct lycopsids Pleueromeia dubia and Cylostrobus sydneyensis (Pleuromeiaceae and Tomiostrobus australis (Isoetaceae) all from the Early Triassic Gosford and Newport Formations of the Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Lycopodiophyta |
Class: | Isoetopsida |
Order: | Isoetales |
Family: | †Pleuromeiaceae |
Genus: | †Pleuromeia |
Species: | †P. dubia |
Binomial name | |
†Pleuromeia dubia Retallack 1995 |
Pleuromeia dubia is a tall species for the genus, with distinctive elongate leaf scars, and known from the Early Triassic of Australia and South Africa. Like other species of Pleuromeia it was a survivor of the marked greenhouse spike at the end of the Early Triassic.