Bitelaria

Bitelaria Temporal range: Early Devonian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Genus:	†Bitelaria Istchenko and Istchenko, 1979
Synonyms
Donotela fistulata Istchenko and Istchenko

Bitelaria is a monospecific genus of extinct vascular plants described from outcrops of the Early Devonian Campbellton Formation in New Brunswick, Canada and Middle Devonian outcrops in the Voronezh region of Russia.^[1] B. dubjanski is characterized by thick-walled, dichotomously branched tubular axes and thick cuticles with possible lenticel-like eruptions. The unusual external morphology of the plant distinguishes it from other vascular plants and is thus placed in Tracheophyta incertae sedis.^[1]

References

1 2 Johnson, N. G. (1992). "The cuticular epithelium of Bitelaria, an Early Devonian vascular plant from New Brunswick, Canada". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 153 (4): 646–657. doi:10.1086/297085. JSTOR 2995584.

Early land flora

Related links	Evolutionary history of plants Rhynie chert External link directory

The first...?	Vascular plant, Cooksonia Tree, Wattieza Lycopods, the Drepanophycales and the zosterophylls Fungus fossil, Ornatifilum Lichen, Spongiophyton

Enigmatic taxa	Cuticular remains: Bitelaria Cosmochlaina Nematothallus Orestovia Protosalvinia Spongiophyton Other: Pachytheca Prototaxites.

Sister taxa	Green algae: Charophyta, from which land plants evolved Chaetocladus, an early alga

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Bitelaria

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