Komlopteris
Extinct genus of seed fern / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Komlopteris is an extinct genus of "seed fern" with possible corystosperm affinities. Fossils have been found across both hemispheres, dating from the latest Triassic to the early Eocene (Ypresian), making it the youngest "seed fern" in the fossil record.[1]
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Specimen of Komlopteris cenozoicus | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Order: | †Corystospermales |
Family: | †Corystospermaceae |
Genus: | †Komlopteris Barbacka, 1994 |
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Komlopteris nordenskioeldii (Nathorst, 1878) Barbacka, 1994 | |
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