Gosslingia
Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants
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Gosslingia was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Fossils have been from the Lochkovian to the Pragian, 420 to 411 million years ago.[1]
| Gosslingia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Plesion: | †Zosterophylls |
| Order: | †incertae sedis |
| Family: | †Gosslingiaceae |
| Genus: | †Gosslingia |
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Gosslingia 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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Hao and Xue in 2013 used the absence of terminal sporangia to place the genus in the family Gosslingiaceae in the paraphyletic order Gosslingiales, a group considered to have indeterminate growth, with fertile branches generally showing circinate vernation (initially curled up).[1] Kenrick and Crane in 1997 also placed the genus in the family Gosslingiaceae, but they place this family in the order Sawdoniales.[4]
