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Pleuromeia dubia

Pleuromeia dubia
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Pleuromeia reconstructions.jpg
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.



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