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Furcula granulifer

Furcula granulifer

Furcula is a genus of extinct plant from Late Triassic Greenland. It contains one species, F. granulifer. The leaves of Furcula have complex net-like veins like those of angiosperms (flowering plants); because of this, it was long considered a possible stem-group angiosperm. However, a recent reinvestigation suggests it is a peltasperm (a type of "seed fern") that convergently evolved angiosperm-like veins.

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  • Fossil taxa described in 1932
  • Fossils of Greenland
  • Late Triassic extinctions
  • Paleobotany stubs
  • Peltaspermales
  • Prehistoric plants
  • Rhaetian first appearances
  • Triassic plants