Cunninghamites

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Cunninghamites
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order:
Cupressales
Family: Cupressaceae
Genus: Cunninghamites
Presl in Sternberg, 1838
Type species
Cunninghamites oxycedrus
Presl
Species

Cunninghamites australis Tenison-Woods[1]
Cunninghamites elegans (Corda) Endlicher, 1847
Cunninghamites lignitum (Sternberg) Kvacek[2]
Cunninghamites oxycedrus Presl
Cunninghamites ubaghsii Debey ex Ubaghs[3]
Cunninghamites recurvatus Hosius & Von Der Marck[4]
Cunninghamites squamosus Heer[5]

Cunninghamites is an extinct genus of conifers in the family Cupressaceae of the European Late Cretaceous flora.[6]

References

  1. ^ Cunninghamites australis on biostor.org
  2. ^ Two Conifers (Taxodiaceae) of the Bohemian Cenomanian (Czech Republic, Central Europe). Jiri Kvacek, Acta Palaeobotanica 2(Suppl), pp. 129–151, 1999 Archived 2011-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cunninghamites ubaghsii (Taxodiaceae?) from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, SE Netherlands) rediscovered. Van der Ham Raymond W. J. M., Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert Johanna H. A. and Nieuwenhuis Eric A. P. M., Bulletin - Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la terre, 2004, vol. 74, pp. 89-96, INIST 15866815
  4. ^ Cunninghamites recurvatus on collections.si.edu