Ginkgoites

Ginkgoites is a genus that refers to extinct plants belonging to Ginkgoaceae. Fossils of these plants have been found around the globe during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The name was created as a form genus in 1919 by Albert Seward who stated: "I ... propose to employ the name Ginkgoites for leaves that it is believed belong either to plants generically identical with Ginkgo or to very closely allied types".[1]

Ginkgoites
Temporal range: Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous
~225–74.8 Ma
fossil leaves identified as Gingkoites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Ginkgophyta
Class: Ginkgoopsida
Order: Ginkgoales
Family: Ginkgoaceae
Genus: †Ginkgoites
Species
  • G. huttoni †
  • G. acosmia †
  • G. antartica †
  • G. australis †
  • G. myrioneurus †
  • G. pluripartita †
  • G. obrutschewii †
  • G. tigrensis †
  • G. troedssonii †

Distribution

References
  1. Albert Charles Seward (1919), Fossil plants: for students of botany and geology, 4, Cambridge University Press, p. 10, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.54901
  2. Passo das Tropas, Santa Maria, RS. Marco bioestratigráfico triássico na evolução paleoflorística do Gondwana na Bacia do Paraná
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