Araucarites

Araucarites is an extinct genus of conifer, used to refer to female conifer cones and cone scales that resemble those of the family Araucariaceae.^[1] Species assigned to the genus (which may not all belong to Araucariaceae) lived in the Permian to Eocene and have been found worldwide.^[2][3]

Araucarites Temporal range: Permian to Eocene ~290–49 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Lithograph of the holotype specimen of Araucarites ooliticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Araucariales
Family:	Araucariaceae
Genus:	†Araucarites Presl 1838
Synonyms
Kaidacarpum Carruthers, 1868

Species

A number of species have been described in Araucarites.

A. aquiensis^[2]

A. cutchensis^[4]

A. goepperti^[2]

A. ooliticum (Carruthers 1868)^[5] Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic, England (originally assumed to be a screw pine (Pandanus), and described as Kaidacarpum ooliticum Carruthers 1868^[6] renamed Pandanocarpum ooliticum Zigno (1873) comb nov., assigned to Araucarites by Seward in 1917^[7])^[8][7][9]

A. pachacuteci^[10]

A. selseyensis^[11]