GREEN PLANT PHYLOGENY RESEARCH COORDINATION GROUP
TABLE 3 - Last update 8/15/96
DATA AVAILABILITY MATRIX FOSSIL BASAL EUPHYLLOPHYTES
This table originally compiled by P. R. Crane, J. A. Doyle, P. Gensel, W. Hahn, P. Kenrick, R. Olmstead, K. Pryer, A. Smith, D. Soltis, E. A. Zimmer
at the 1995 Berkeley meeting of the GPPRCG and modified based on broader input at the 1996 Seatttle meeting

q possibly very incomplete; + information; - no information; ?AP questionable association of parts (for fossils)
Taxon - fossils indicated # 
Priority
clade represented 
 sporophyte vegetative morphology
sporophyte vegetative anatomy
sporangia
/seeds
spores
gametophyte
sperm 
ultrastruct.
rbcL
atpB
18S
other genes
 comments 
EUPHYLLOPHYTE CLADE 
Trimerophytes 
#Psilophyton crenulatum 
1
trimerophytes
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Psilophyton dawsonii 
2
trimerophytes
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Psilophyton forbesii 
2
trimerophytes
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#"Pertica" n. sp. Gensel 
1
trimerophytes
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Pertica varia 
2
trimerophytes
+
-
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Eophyllophyton bellum 
2
possible trimero.
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
'Sphenoferns' 
#Pseudosporochnus nodosus 
1
Cladoxylales
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Ibyka amphikoma 
2
Iridopteridales
+
+
+ q
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Rhacophyton ceratangium 
1
"preferns"
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Calamophyton bicephalum 
1
Cladoxylales
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Hyenia elegans 
2
Cladoxylales
+
+ q
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Arachnoxylon 
2
Iridopteridales
-
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Eviostachya 
2
"presphenopsid"
-
+ q
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Estinnophyton wahnbachense 
2
"presphenopsid"
+
-
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Pseudobornia ursina 
2
"presphenopsid"
+
-
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Early fossil 'ferns' 
#Botryopteris farensis 
1
Botryopteridaceae
-
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Botryopteris tridentata 
2
Botryopteridaceae
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Psalixochlaena cyclindrica 
1
Psalixochlaenaceae
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Ankyropteris brongniartii 
1
Tedeleaceae
-
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Sermaya 
2
Sermayaceae
-
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Biscallitheca musata 
2
Zygopteridaceae
-
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Corynepteris involucrata 
1
Zygopteridaceae
-
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Psaronius-Scolecopteris 
1
Marattiaceae
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Stauropteris sp. 
2
Stauropteridaceae
?
?
?
?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Progymnosperms 
#Rellimia thompsonii 
1
Aneurophytales
+
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Tetraxylopteris schmidtii 
2
Aneurophytales
+ q
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Aneurophyton gernanicum 
3
Aneurophytales
+ q
+ q
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Archaeopteris macilenta 
1
Archaeopteridales
+ ?AP
+
+ ?AP
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Cecropsis 
2
prob. progymno.
-
+
+
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
#Noeggerathia 
3
prob. progymno.
+
-
+ ?AP
+
-
-
-
-
-
-
-