Rhynia facts for kids
| Rhynia Temporal range: Early Devonian |
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| Reconstruction of Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii, redrawn after Kenrick & Crane (1997:101) | |
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| Subdivisio: | †Rhyniophytina |
| Class: | †Rhyniopsida |
| Order: | †Rhyniales |
| Family: | †Rhyniaceae |
| Genus: | †Rhynia Kidst. & W.H.Lang (1917) |
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A fossil stem of Rhynia is broken and shows the cells.
Rhynia is a genus of Early Devonian fossil land plants. Only one species is known, R. gwynne-vaughanii. The fossils are the sporophyte generation of a vascular plant. Rhynia had anatomical features more advanced than those of the bryophytes.
Related pages
- Horneophyton, a fossil non-vascular plant similar to Rhynia
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