Aglaophyton

Aglaophyton
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Reconstruction of the sporophyte of Aglaophyton, illustrating bifurcating axes with terminal sporangia, and rhizoids. Insets show a cross-section of a sporangium and the probable spores.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Polysporangiophytes
Genus: Aglaophyton
D.S.Edwards 1986
Species
  • A. major (Kidston & Lang 1920) Edwards 1986
Synonyms
  • Lyonophyton Remy & Remy 1980

Aglaophyton is a genus of early Devonian fossil land plants. Its fossils have been found in the Rhynie chert. Only the sporophyte generation have been found as fossils. Only one species has been found, Aglaophyton major.


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