Cunninghamites elegans
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Cunninghamites elegans | |
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Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Pinophyta |
Class: | Pinopsida |
Order: | Cupressales |
Family: | Cupressaceae |
Genus: | †Cunninghamites |
Species: | †C. elegans
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Binomial name | |
†Cunninghamites elegans | |
Synonyms | |
Cunninghamia elegans Corda, 1846 |
Cunninghamites elegans is an extinct conifer species in the family Cupressaceae and the genus Cunninghamites. Cunninghamites is a genus of the European Late Cretaceous flora.[2] Remains of C. elegans needles have been found in the carcasses of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus.
References
- ↑ Synopsis coniferarum. S Endlicher - 1847
- ↑ Taxodiaceous conifers from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). R. W. J. M. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert and J. van der Burgh, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 116, Issues 3-4, Sept 2001, pp. 233-250, doi:10.1016/S0034-6667(01)00092-6