''Aneurophyton'' is a genus of extinct

vascular plant Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes () or collectively Tracheophyta (), form a large group of land plants ( accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They ...

s that belong to the Aneurophytales, a class of

progymnosperm The progymnosperms are an extinct group of woody, spore-bearing plants that is presumed to have evolved from the trimerophytes, and eventually gave rise to the gymnosperms, ancestral to acrogymnosperms and angiosperms (flowering plants). They ...

s. The genus is primarily known from records of two well-known species found in mostly Middle Devonian and Upper Devonian (late Eifelian to Famennian) outcrops in Belgium, China (West Junggar), Germany, and the United States (New York). Some uncertain species within the genus are also recorded from Middle Devonian outcrops in Kazakhstan, Russia (Timan and Siberia), and the Ukraine. While a number of species have been described in the paleobotanical literature, the genus likely only contains two well-circumscribed species, ''A. germanicum'' and ''A. doui'', and possibly a third species, ''A. olnense'', from Fammenian outcrops in Belgium. If the ages of the Early Devonian ( Emsian) records of ''A. germanicum'' reported from Siberia are confirmed, these would constitute the oldest records of this genus.

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Middle Devonian plants Devonian plants {{devonian-plant-stub

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