Elatocladus

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Elatocladus
Temporal range: Triassic–Cretaceous
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Genus: Elatocladus
Halle, 1913

Elatocladus is an extinct form genus of Mesozoic sterile conifer leaves, used for shoots with the morphology of "elongated, dorsiventrally flattened leaves with a single vein; divergent from stem". Conifers with leaves of Elatocladus morphology are of uncertain taxonomic position within conifers.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kvaček, Jiří (2015-01-23). "Elatocladus velenovskyi nom. nov., a characteristic conifer of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin". Palaeontographica Abteilung B. 292 (1–3): 79–93. Bibcode:2015PalAB.292...79K. doi:10.1127/palb/292/2015/79. ISSN 2194-900X.