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Also known as: Sphenopsida
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Carboniferous Period
- In Carboniferous Period: Plants
were the lycopods, sphenopsids, cordaites, seed ferns, and true ferns. Lysopods are represented in the modern world only by club mosses, but in the Carboniferous Period they included tall trees with dense, spirally arranged leaves. Reproduction involved either cones or spore-bearing organs on the leaves.
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coal formation
- In coal: The fossil record
Late Paleozoic flora included sphenopsids, lycopsids, pteropsids, and the Cordaitales. The sphenopsid Calamites grew as trees in swamps. Calamites had long, jointed stems with sparse foliage. The lycopsids included species of Lepidodendron and Sigillaria (up to 30 metres [about 100 feet] tall) that grew
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