Yavanna chimaerica
Extinct species of fern
Yavanna chimaerica Temporal range: Aptian ~125–113 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Cyatheales |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Yavanna Vera |
Species: | †Y. chimaerica |
Binomial name | |
†Yavanna chimaerica Vera, 2013 |
Yavanna is an extinct genus of tree ferns known from the Early Cretaceous Cerro Negro Formation of what are now the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.[1]
References
- ^ Vera, Ezequiel Ignacio (2013). "New cyathealean tree fern, Yavanna chimaerica gen. et sp. nov., from the Early Cretaceous of Livingston Island, Antarctica". Cretaceous Research. 44: 214–222. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.04.011. hdl:11336/8854.
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