The age of the earliest club mosses: the Silurian Baragwanathia flora in Victoria, Australia

Authors
Rickards, RB
Citation
Rb. Rickards, The age of the earliest club mosses: the Silurian Baragwanathia flora in Victoria, Australia, GEOL MAG, 137(2), 2000, pp. 207-209
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
ISSN journal
00167568 → ACNP
Volume
137
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
207 - 209
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7568(200003)137:2<207:TAOTEC>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
It is argued that there is overwhelming evidence from a good graptolite rec ord that the earliest club mosses on Earth were of Gorstian (Ludlow, Siluri an) age, and that Baragwanathia longifolia Lang & Cookson and its associate d flora persisted through the Pridoli and into the early Devonian, showing some changes during this time.