Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Discovery of Ordovician land plants

Roman Kozłowski and Pal Greguss

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 04 (1), 1959: 1-9

In Ordovician erratic boulders land plants remains were found. They could be considered as more primitive than Psilophytales, and probably as the most primitive land plants. Two new genera: Musciphyton gen. nov. and Hepaticaephyton gen. nov. are distinguished.


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