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Regnellites

Regnellites
Temporal range: Jurassic or Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida
(disputed)
Order: Salviniales
Family: Marsileaceae
Genus: Regnellites
Species: R. nagashimae
Binomial name
Regnellites nagashimae

Regnellites nagashimae is the oldest known fossil belonging to the fern family Marsileaceae. It comes from rocks of the Upper Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous of Japan. The fossils include leaves with visible veins, as well as sporocarps.



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