Editing Lepidodendron (section)

== Extinction ==
In [[Euramerica]], ''Lepidodendron'' became extinct at the end of the Carboniferous,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Feng |first1=Ru |last2=D’Rozario |first2=Ashalata |last3=Zhang |first3=Jian-Wei |date=December 2019 |title=A new Bergeria (Flemingitaceae) from the Mississippian of Xinjiang, NW China and its evolutionary implications |journal=Journal of Palaeogeography |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |page=4 |doi=10.1186/s42501-018-0020-4 |issn=2524-4507|doi-access=free |bibcode=2019JPalG...8....4F }}</ref> as part of a broader pattern of ecological change, including the increasing dominance of [[seed plant]]s in lowland wetland forests, and increasingly arid-adapted vegetation across western Pangea.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Spencer G. |last2=DiMichele |first2=William A. |last3=Opluštil |first3=Stanislav |last4=Wang |first4=Xiangdong |date=2023-06-14 |title=An introduction to ice ages, climate dynamics and biotic events: the Late Pennsylvanian world |url=https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP535-2022-334 |journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications |language=en |volume=535 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 |doi=10.1144/SP535-2022-334 |bibcode=2023GSLSP.535..334L |issn=0305-8719|url-access=subscription }}</ref> However, in the [[Cathaysia]] region comprising what is now China, wet tropical environmental conditions continued to prevail, with ''Lepidodendron'' (in its broad sense) only becoming extinct around the end of the Permian, around 252 million years ago, as a result of the extreme environmental disturbance caused by the [[Permian-Triassic extinction event]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Zhen |last2=Hilton |first2=Jason |last3=Yu |first3=Jianxin |last4=Wignall |first4=Paul B. |last5=Yin |first5=Hongfu |last6=Xue |first6=Qing |last7=Ran |first7=Weiju |last8=Li |first8=Hui |last9=Shen |first9=Jun |last10=Meng |first10=Fansong |date=September 2022 |title=End Permian to Middle Triassic plant species richness and abundance patterns in South China: Coevolution of plants and the environment through the Permian–Triassic transition |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012825222002203 |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |language=en |volume=232 |pages=104136 |doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104136|bibcode=2022ESRv..23204136X }}</ref>