Liriodendrites

Liriodenrites is an extinct genus of plant from the family Magnoliaceae.[1] Four species are known: L. bradacii,[2] L. laramiense.,[3] L. occidentalis[4] and L. sachalinensis.[4] It has been discovered in the United States (Hell Creek Formation), Egypt (Bahariya Formation) and Russia (Sakhalin and Siberia).

Liriodendrites
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Paleocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Magnoliids
Order:
Magnoliales
Family:
Magnoliaceae
Genus:
†Liriodendrites

Kirk, 1996
Species
  • †L. bradacii Kirk, 1996
  • †L. laramiense Kirk, 1996 (Kirk, 1989)
  • †L. occidentalis Alekseev, 2010
  • †L. sachalinensis Aleskeev, 2010
Synonyms

References
  1. Donovan, Michael P.; Wilf, Peter; Labandeira, Conrad C.; Johnson, Kirk R.; Peppe, Daniel J. (2014-07-24). "Novel Insect Leaf-Mining after the End-Cretaceous Extinction and the Demise of Cretaceous Leaf Miners, Great Plains, USA". PLOS ONE. 9 (7): e103542. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j3542D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103542. PMC 4110055. PMID 25058404.
  2. Johnson, Kirk R. 1996. Description of seven common fossil leaf species from the Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Upper Maastrichtian), North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History. ser. 3 (12): 47 pp.
  3. Kirk R. Johnson; See: Johnson, Kirk R. 1989. A high-resolution megafloral biostratigraphy spanning the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains. Ph.D Dissertation. Yale University, New Haven. [Volume=I-II.].; Note: "Primary type" of HC166
  4. Alekseev, P. I. (2010). "Genus Liriodendrites in Cretaceous and early Paleogene floras of Northern Asia". Paleontological Journal. 43 (10): 1181–1189. doi:10.1134/S0031030109100013. ISSN 0031-0301. S2CID 140692794.
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