Anisophyton
Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants
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Anisophyton was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Known fossils are of Emsian age (411 to 393 million years ago).[1]
| Anisophyton Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Plesion: | †Zosterophylls |
| Genus: | †Anisophyton |
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Anisophyton in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[3]
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