Caytonanthus
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Genus of seed ferns
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Division: | †Pteridospermatophyta |
| Order: | †Caytoniales |
| Family: | †Caytoniaceae |
| Genus: | †Caytonanthus Harris, 1937 |
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Caytonanthus is an extinct genus of seed ferns.
Description
[edit ]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.[3] 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.[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ Caytonanthus in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Caytonanthus T.M. Harris, 1937 †. Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 19 March 2026.
- ^ a b 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. Bibcode:2019JSPal..17.1477E. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1535456. eISSN 1478-0941. hdl:11336/117441 . ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 92287804.
