Lepidopteris callipteroides
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| Lepidopteris callipteroides Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of Lepidopteris callipteroides leaf, and its reproductive organs Peltaspermum townrovii and Permotheca helbyi from the latest Permian Coal Cliff Sandstone of Oakdale Colliery, NSW. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Order: | †Peltaspermales |
| Family: | †Peltaspermaceae |
| Genus: | †Lepidopteris |
| Species: | †L. callipteroides |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lepidopteris callipteroides (Carpentier) Retallack 2002 | |
Lepidopteris callipteroides is a form species for leaves of Late Permian Pteridospermatophyta, or seed ferns, which lived from around 252 million years ago in what is now Australia, and Madagascar. Lepidopteris callipteroides was an immediate survivor of the largest Permian-Triassic extinction event, migrating southward with the post-apocalyptic greenhouse spike.[1]
In the form generic system of paleobotany Lepidopteris is used only for leaves, which in Lepidopteris callipteroides is palmate with multiple dichotomies of the rachis. The cuticle of the leaves is thick and has distinctive cuticular structure with stomatal opening overhung by papillae, used to link the fossil leaves with well preserved ovulate structures of Peltaspermum townrovii and pollen organs of Permotheca helbyi in the same deposits [1]
