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Yavanna chimaerica

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Yavanna chimaerica
Temporal range: Aptian
~125–113 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Cyatheales
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Yavanna
Vera
Species:
Y. chimaerica
Binomial name
Yavanna chimaerica
Vera, 2013

Yavanna is an extinct genus of tree ferns known from the Early Cretaceous Cerro Negro Formation of what are now the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Vera, Ezequiel Ignacio (2013). "New cyathealean tree fern, Yavanna chimaerica gen. et sp. nov., from the Early Cretaceous of Livingston Island, Antarctica". Cretaceous Research. 44: 214–222. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.04.011. hdl:11336/8854.