Celastrinites

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Celastrinites
Temporal range: 89.3–70.6 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Celastrales
Family: Celastraceae
Genus: †Celastrinites
Saporta[1]
Species
  • Celastrinites alatus Knowlton
  • Celastrinites artocarpidioides Lesquereux
  • Celastrinites cowanensis Knowlton
  • Celastrinites elegans Lesquereux[2]
  • Celastrinites kolymensis Knowlton
  • Celastrinites laevigatus Lesquereux
  • Celastrinites wardii

Celastrinites is an extinct genus of prehistoric plants in the family Celastraceae. Celastrinites wardii is from the Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada. C. elegans is from the Florissant fossil bed of Colorado.

References

  1. ↑ Etudes sur la végétation du Sud-Est de la France à l'époque tertiaire. G Saporta, 1866
  2. ↑ Leo Lesqureux, 1883. Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 185 and pl. XXXI, fig. 9-10 (in chapter Flora of the Green River Group, in Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 8)
  • A catalogue of the Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of North America. Frank Hall Knowlton, 1898

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