Taeniocrada

Taeniocrada
Temporal range:
Taeniocrada decheniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes (?)
Genus: Taeniocrada
D. White
Species
  • T. decheniana (Goep.) Kräusel & Weyland (1930)
  • T. dubia Kräusel & Weyland (1930)
  • T. elschanica Chirkova-Zalesskaja (1957)
  • T. gracilis Chirkova-Zalesskaja (1957)
  • T. latissima Senkevitsch (1978)
  • T. lesquereuxii White (1902)
  • T. orientalis Radchenko in Lepjechina et al. (1962)
  • T. pilosa Senkevitsch (1978)
  • T.(?) spitsbergensis Høeg (1942)
  • T. stilesvillensis Taylor (1986)
  • T. timanica Chirkova-Zalesskaja (1957)
  • T. tuviensis
List taken from Taylor (1986).

Taeniocrada is a genus of extinct plants of Devonian age (420 to 360 million years ago). It is used as a form genus for fossil plants with leafless flattened stems which divided dichotomously and had prominent midribs regarded as containing vascular tissues. It has been suggested that some species assigned to this genus were aquatic.