Pleuromeiaceae

Pleuromeiaceae
	Reconstructions of fossils Cylostrobus sydneyensis and Pleuromeia dubia(Pleuromeiaceae) and Tomiostrobus australis (Isoetaceae) from the Early Triassic of the Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Lycophytes
Class:	Lycopodiopsida
Order:	Isoetales
Family:	†Pleuromeiaceae
Genera
	†Cylostrobus; †Ferganodendron; †Lycostrobus; †Pleuromeia;

Pleuromeiaceae is an extinct family of plants related to living quillworts (Isoetes), but with tall stems and terminal compact cones. They were especially widespread globally in the aftermath of the Permian Triassic mass extinctions.^[2]

References

^ Retallack, Gregory J. (1997). "Earliest Triassic origin of Isoetes and quillwort evolutionary radiation". Journal of Paleontology. 7 (3): 500–521.
^ Retallack, Gregory J. (2013). "Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises". Gondwana Research. 24: 90–103. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.003.

[Retallack1997-1] Retallack, Gregory J. (1997). "Earliest Triassic origin of Isoetes and quillwort evolutionary radiation". Journal of Paleontology. 7 (3): 500–521.

[Retallack2013-2] Retallack, Gregory J. (2013). "Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises". Gondwana Research. 24: 90–103. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.003.

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