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Extinct genus of plants

Monanthesia
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Order: Bennettitales
Family: Cycadeoidaceae
Genus: Monanthesia
Wieland, 1934
Species
  • M. saxbyana R.Br.
  • M. magnifica
  • M. gigantea

Monanthesia is an extinct genus of bennettitalean plant that is known from fossil finds in Europe and North America, which existed during the Early Cretaceous period.

Species

At least three species have been named:

References

  1. ^ Watson, Joan; Lydon, Susannah J (2004). "The bennettitalean trunk genera Cycadeoidea and Monanthesia in the Purbeck, Wealden and Lower Greensand of southern England: A reassessment". Cretaceous Research. 25: 1–26. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2003.10.003.
Taxon identifiers
Monanthesia


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