Moresnetiaceae is a natural family of seed ferns in the Division
Pteridospermatophyta
The term Pteridospermatophyta (or "seed ferns" or "Pteridospermatopsida") is a polyphyletic group of extinct seed-bearing plants (spermatophytes). The earliest fossil evidence for plants of this type is the genus ''Elkinsia'' of the late Devonian ...
that appears in the North American and European Devonian to Carboniferous coal measures.
Description
Moresnetiaceae were shrubs to trees with radiospermic ovules with a lagenostome and aggregated into multiovular
cupules.
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Pteridospermatophyta
Late Devonian plants
Carboniferous plants
Prehistoric plant families
Devonian first appearances
Carboniferous extinctions
Mississippian plants
Pennsylvanian plants
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