Tarella
Extinct genus of spore-bearing plants
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Tarella was a genus of Early Devonian land plant with branching axes.[2] Fossils came from Pragian age rocks (413 to 411 million years ago).[3]
| Tarella Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Lycophytes |
| Plesion: | †Zosterophylls |
| Genus: | †Tarella |
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Tarella in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).[4]
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Hao and Xue in 2013 listed the genus as a zosterophyll.[1]