Lepidopteris callipteroides

Lepidopteris callipteroides
Temporal range:
Reconstruction of Lepidopteris callipteroides leaf, and its reproductive organs Peltaspermum townrovii and Permotheca helbyi from the latest Permian Coal Cliff Sandstone of Oakdale Colliery, NSW.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Order: †Peltaspermales
Family: †Peltaspermaceae
Genus: †Lepidopteris
Species:
†L. callipteroides
Binomial name
†Lepidopteris callipteroides
(Carpentier) Retallack 2002

Lepidopteris callipteroides is a form species for leaves of Late Permian Pteridospermatophyta, or seed ferns, which lived from around 252 million years ago in what is now Australia, and Madagascar. Lepidopteris callipteroides was an immediate survivor of the largest Permian-Triassic extinction event, migrating southward with the post-apocalyptic greenhouse spike.

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