Psaroniaceae

Psaroniaceae
A section of Psaronius from the Bunsbury collection, Sedgwick Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Marattiales
Family:	†Psaroniaceae Unger[1]
Genera
See text.

Psaroniaceae is an extinct family of marattialean tree ferns from the Carboniferous–Permian interval. Most fossilized genera, species and spores of the order Marattiales may be placed in this family. Members of the family differ from Mesozoic and more recent tree ferns in the way the roots were produced, in the structure and organization of fronds and pinnules, and in dehiscence.[1] Some sources merge the family into a much larger family, Asterothecaceae.[2]

Fossil genera of the family include:[1]

• Psaronius Cotta – Carboniferous-Permian, more or less cosmopolitan
• Tietea Solms-Laubach – Permian, Paraná and Parnaíba Basins in Brazil
• Tuvichapteris Herbst – Permian, Paraná Basin in Paraguay and Uruguay

References

1. Tavares, T.M.V.; Rohn, Rosemarie; Neregato, Rodrigo; Röβler, Ronny; Noll, Robert; Kurzawe, Francine; da Conceição, Domingas Maria; Cisneros, Juan Carlos; Iannuzzi, Roberto; da Silva Belem, Antonio Rhamon & Karollyni Coutinho, Barbara (2024), "Diversity and Growth Forms of Tree Ferns in the Permian from the Parnaíba Basin (Central-North Brazil)", in Iannuzzi, R.; Rößler, R. & Kunzmann, L. (eds.), Brazilian Paleofloras, Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90913-4_7-1, ISBN 978-3-319-90913-4
2. "Asterothecaceae", Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, retrieved 2024-10-11