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Equisetales

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Annularia sp.

Grundy County, Illinois, USA
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Annularia sp.

Dębieńsko Mine heap, Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Calamostachys sp.

Dębieńsko Mine heap, Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Annularia sp.

Grundy County, Illinois, USA
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Annularia sp.

Dębieńsko Mine heap, Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
03726180017362085809297.jpg
Calamostachys sp.

Dębieńsko Mine heap, Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Annularia sp.

Grundy County, Illinois, USA
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Annularia sp.

Dębieńsko Mine heap, Gmina Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Description

Equisetales is an order of subclass Equisetidae with only one living family, Equisetaceae, containing the genus Equisetum (horsetails).


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetales, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 4.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)954https://www.gbif.org/species/954
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)55865https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55865
Rankorder
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Equisetales
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Plantae : Equisetophyta : Equisetopsida : Equisetales
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
kingdomPlantaeHaeckel 1866
superphylumTracheophyta
-PteridobiotinaDoweld 2001
superphylumPteridophytanaeDoweld 2001
phylumEquisetophytaScott 1900
classEquisetopsidaAgardh 1825
orderEquisetalesDumortier 1829
Scientific NameEquisetales
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Equisetalesorderbelongs to Sphenopsidastated without evidenceHickey, 1977
Equisetalesorderbelongs to Equisetophytastated without evidenceUpchurch et al., 1994
Equisetalesorderbelongs to Equisetopsidastated without evidenceJud, 2011
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)18
Extant Size (PBDB)2 (11%)
First Recorded Appearance359 - 323 Ma
Paleozoic
Primary Reference (PBDB)D.J. Mabberley. 2000. The Plant-Book, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.
Common Name(s) Schachtelhalmartige, Horsetails, Fräkenartade, Fräkenordningen
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetales

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Archaeocalamitaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Asterocalamitaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Autophyllitaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Calamitaceae âśť
family		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1,099359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian		156 Ma
Jurassic
Echinostachyaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Equisetaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1,208359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian		0 Ma
Extant
Gondwanostachyaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Konnostachyaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Manchurostachyaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Notocalamitaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Tchernoviaceae
family		accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Annularia âśť
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		392359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian		252 Ma
Permian
Schizoneura âśť
genus		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		144296 Ma
Permian		157 Ma
Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1829Equisetales Dumortier p. 66
1967Equisetales Jain and Delevoryas
1977Equisetales Hickey
1985Equisetales Lapasha and Miller
1994Equisetales Upchurch et al.
2011Equisetales Jud

References

Mabberley D.J. (2000) The Plant-Book, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.
Hickey L. J. (1977) Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota, The Geological Society of America Memoir 150, 1-183
Lapasha C. A., Miller C. N. (1985) Flora of the Early Cretaceous Kootenai Formation in Montana, Bryophytes and Tracheophytes Excluding Conifers, Palaeontographica Abteilung B 196, 111-145
Upchurch G. R., Crane P. R., et al (1994) The Megaflora from the Quantico Locality (Upper Albian), Lower Cretaceous Potomac Group of Virginia, Virginia Museum of Natural History 4, 1-57
Jud N. A. (2011) Unpublished taxonomic opinions
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Xian-Chun Zhang, and Harald Schneider, 2011: A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa, vol. 19. 7-54. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0119248. - via World Register of Marine Species
Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, R., Hallingbäck, T., Hansson, H.G. & Hedström, L. (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska växtfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (2006) A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55 (3) August 2006: 705–731 - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Ruggiero M, Gordon D, Bailly N, Kirk P, Nicolson D (2012) The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th April 2012 (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Culham A., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Appeltans W., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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