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Caytonanthus

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Genus of seed ferns

Caytonanthus
Temporal range: Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: †Pteridospermatophyta
Order: †Caytoniales
Genus: †Caytonanthus
Harris 1937
Species

Caytonanthus is an extinct genus of seed ferns.

Description

Caytonanthus is the polliniferous organ-genus of the Caytoniales, and it is often found along Sagenopteris and Caytonia. Caytonanthus remains have been found in Greenland, UK, Hungary Russia, Poland, India, Antarctica and Argentina. Caytonanthus has simple or multiple orders of branches arrayed along axes, each terminal branch bears one or many synangia, each composed by four, partially fused, pollen sacs.

References

  1. ^ Elgorriaga, A.; Escapa, I. H.; Cúneo, R. (2019). "Southern Hemisphere Caytoniales: vegetative and reproductive remains from the Lonco Trapial Formation (Lower Jurassic), Patagonia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (17): 1257–1275. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1535456. S2CID 92287804.
Taxon identifiers
Caytonanthus


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