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Genus of seed ferns From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caytonanthus is an extinct genus of seed ferns.
Caytonanthus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | †Pteridospermatophyta |
Order: | †Caytoniales |
Genus: | †Caytonanthus Harris 1937 |
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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.[1] 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.[1]
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