Alethopteris
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Alethopteris Temporal range:
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Alethopteris grandini, late Carboniferous, Kansas. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | †Pteridospermatophyta |
Order: | †Medullosales |
Family: | †Alethopteridaceae |
Genus: | †Alethopteris |
Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil pteridospermatophytes (seed ferns) that developed in the Carboniferous period (around 360 to 300 million years ago).[1]
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- ^ "Seed Fern Fossil". www.fossilmuseum.net. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
Categories:
- Pteridospermatophyta
- Carboniferous plants
- Prehistoric plant genera
- Carboniferous first appearances
- Carboniferous extinctions
- Fossils of Georgia (U.S. state)
- Paleozoic life of New Brunswick
- Paleozoic life of Nova Scotia
- Paleozoic life of Prince Edward Island
- Prehistoric plants of North America
- Paleozoic plant stubs
- Carboniferous stubs