Dictyopteridium
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| Dictyopteridium Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of the glossopterid plant Dictyopteridium sporiferum, with Glossopteris communis leaves, Eretmonia hinjridaensis pollen organ, Protohaploxypinus limpidus pollen, Ararucarioxylon bengalense wood and chambered roots of Vertebraria australis from Late Permian Blackwater Coal Measures near Homevale Station, Queensland[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Order: | †Glossopteridales |
| Family: | †Glossopteridaceae |
| Genus: | †Dictyopteridium Feistmantel 1881 |
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Dictyopteridium is an extinct genus of plants belonging to Glossopteridaceae, but the name is used only for compression fossils of elongate multiovulate reproductive structures adnate to Glossopteris leaves.[2] Permineralized remains identical to Dictyopteridium have been referred to the organ genus Homevaleia[3]
