Thrinkophyton Temporal range: Early Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Genus †Thrinkophyton
Thrinkophyton Early Devonian land plant with branching axes. Known fossils are of Lochkovian to Pragian age (million years ago).
A cladogram published in 2004 by Crane et al. places Thrinkophyton in the core of a paraphyletic stem group of broadly defined "zosterophylls ", basal to the lycopsids (living and extinct clubmosses and relatives).
lycophytes † Hicklingia Adoketophyton Discalis Distichophytum Rebuchia ), Gumuia Huia Zosterophyllum myretonianumZ. llanoveranum, Z. fertile †'core' zosterophylls Zosterophyllum divaricatumTarella Oricilla Gosslingia Hsua , Thrinkophyton , Protobarinophyton Barinophyton obscurumB. citrulliforme , Sawdonia Deheubarthia Konioria Anisophyton Serrulacaulis Crenaticaulis Nothia Zosterophyllum deciduumlycopsids extant and extinct members † Hicklingia †basal groups Adoketophyton Discalis Distichophytum Rebuchia ), Gumuia Huia Zosterophyllum myretonianumZ. llanoveranum, Z. fertile †'core' zosterophylls Zosterophyllum divaricatumTarella Oricilla Gosslingia Hsua , Thrinkophyton , Protobarinophyton Barinophyton obscurumB. citrulliforme , Sawdonia Deheubarthia Konioria Anisophyton Serrulacaulis Crenaticaulis Nothia Zosterophyllum deciduumlycopsids extant and extinct members †basal groups Adoketophyton Discalis Distichophytum Rebuchia ), Gumuia Huia Zosterophyllum myretonianumZ. llanoveranum, Z. fertile †'core' zosterophylls Zosterophyllum divaricatumTarella Oricilla Gosslingia Hsua , Thrinkophyton , Protobarinophyton Barinophyton obscurumB. citrulliforme , Sawdonia Deheubarthia Konioria Anisophyton Serrulacaulis Crenaticaulis †basal groups Nothia Zosterophyllum deciduumlycopsids extant and extinct members †basal groups Nothia Zosterophyllum deciduumlycopsids extant and extinct members
Hao and Xue in 2013 listed the genus as a zosterophyll.
External links from Crane, Herendeen & Friis 2004