Furcula granulifer
| Furcula granulifer Temporal range: Late Triassic (Rhaetian), | |
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| Venation plus diagrams interpreting the venation of Furcula | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Order: | †Peltaspermales |
| Genus: | †Furcula Harris, 1932 |
| Species: | †F. granulifer |
| Binomial name | |
| †Furcula granulifer Harris, 1932 | |
Furcula is a genus of extinct plant from Late Triassic Greenland. It contains one species, F. granulifer. The leaves of Furcula have complex net-like veins like those of angiosperms (flowering plants); because of this, it was long considered a possible stem-group angiosperm. However, a recent reinvestigation suggests it is a peltasperm (a type of "seed fern") that convergently evolved angiosperm-like veins.