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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 |
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†Pleuromeia dubia Retallack 1995 |
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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.