Buriadia

Buriadia
Temporal range: Carboniferous to Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: †Voltziales
Family: †Buriadiaceae
Genus: †
A.C.Seward & B.Sahni
Species
  • Buriadia florinii Maithy, 1970
  • Buriadia fragilis Maithy, 1969
  • Buriadia heterophylla (Brongniart, 1828)
  • Buriadia sewardii Sahni, 1928

Buriadia is a genus that existed from the Carboniferous to the Permian. Buriadia were vascular plants that reproduced by seed. The type species is Buriadia heterophylla.

Location

In Paleorrota geopark, located in Brazil, were found rare branches of the genus Buriadia, are in the Rio Bonito Formation and date from Sakmarian in the Permian.[1]

References

  1. ^ Revisão fitoestratigrãfica do Grupo Itararé no Rio Grande do Sul. III - área de faxinal, Município de Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul


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