Ibyka

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Ibyka
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Ibyka

Skog & Banks (1973)
Type species
Ibyka amphikoma
Skog & Banks (1973)
Species
  • I. amphikoma Skog & Banks (1973)
  • I. vogtii (Høeg 1942) Berry (2005)

Ibyka is an extinct genus of Iridopteridales, and a possible ancestor to horsetails. [1]
The name comes from the poet Ibykos because the discovery of the fossil was due to the activity of construction cranes during the construction of the Gilboa Dam. [2] [3] The probable relationships within Equisetopsida are shown in the cladogram below. The position where Ibyka would be added. [4]

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References

  1. Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings: Paleobotany. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants . Second Edition, Academic Press 2009, ISBN   978-0-12-373972-8 , p. 398-400.
  2. Skog, J.E.; Banks (1973). "H.P.". American Journal of Botany. 60: 366–380. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1973.tb05937.x.
  3. Moran, Robbin (2004). A natural history of ferns (1 ed.). Timber Press.
  4. "Introduction to the Sphenophyta". University of California Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved 31 July 2011.