The Protolepidodendrales are an extinct order of lycopsids that flourished from the

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

to the lower

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...

( Mississippian) periods. '' Leclercqia'' is one of the best-known genera. '' Protolepidodendropsis'' is another genus included in this order.

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Prehistoric lycophytes Prehistoric plant orders {{paleo-lycophyte-stub