Bitelaria Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Genus: | †
Bitelaria Istchenko and Istchenko, 1979 |
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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]