Alethopteris

Extinct genus of plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil pteridospermatophytes (seed ferns) that developed in the Pennsylvanian (around 320 to 300 million years ago).[1]

Alethopteris florentina De Stefani, 1901, Natural History Museum University of Pisa
Alethopteris, at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Alethopteris sp.
Alethopteris Serlii on laminated mudstone from St. Clair, Pennsylvania.

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Alethopteris
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian,
~323.4–298.9 Ma
Alethopteris grandini, late Carboniferous, Kansas. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Division: Pteridospermatophyta
Order: Medullosales
Family: Alethopteridaceae
Genus: Alethopteris
Species
  • A. branneri
  • A. lobifolia
  • A. lonchiticus
  • A. roesserti
  • A. serlii
  • A. sullivantii
  • A. valida
  • A. whitbyensis
  • A. whitneyi
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