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{{Short description|Extinct genus of plants}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Sagarika]]}}
{{Taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Albian}}
| image = Sagaria cilentana.jpg
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
| unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]]
| ordo = [[Ranunculales]]
| familia = [[Ranunculaceae]]
| genus = '''''Sagaria'''''
| genus_authority = Bravi, Barone Lumaga & Mickle, 2010
}}
'''''Sagaria''''' is an extinct genus of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Ranunculaceae]] (the buttercup family) which existed in southern [[Italy]] during the [[Albian]] age.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |author=Sergio Bravi, Maria Rosaria Barone Lumaga & James E. Mickle |year=2010 |title=''Sagaria cilentana'' gen. et sp. nov. - a new angiosperm fructification from the Middle Albian of Southern Italy |journal=[[Cretaceous Research]] |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=285–290 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2009.12.001 |bibcode=2010CrRes..31..285B |url=http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantbiology/Faculty/jmickle/pdf/sagaria.pdf }}</ref> The [[type species]] is ''Sagaria cilentana''.
==Taxonomy==
The genus was erected based on a single specimen (part and counterpart) retrieved from an exposure in the [[Alburni]] mountains near [[Petina, Campania|Petina]], in the [[Campania]] region. The locality was already known for both crustacean and plant fossils.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bravi|first1=Sergio|last2=Garassino|first2=Alessandro|date=1988|title="Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Petina, in the Alburni Mounts (Campania, S Italy), and its decapod crustacean assemblage|journal=Atti Società italiana Scienze naturali Museo civico Storia naturale Milano|volume=138|pages=89–118}}</ref> The name is dedicated to the collector of the specimen, Giovanni Sagaria.<ref name=":0" />
==References==
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[[Category:Ranunculaceae]]
[[Category:Early Cretaceous plants]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2010]]
[[Category:Cretaceous angiosperms]]
[[Category:Prehistoric angiosperm genera]]
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