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Elatocladus

Extinct genus of conifers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elatocladus is an extinct form genus of Mesozoic sterile conifer leaves, used for shoots with the morphology of "elongated, dorsiventrally flattened leaves with a single vein; divergent from stem". Conifers with leaves of Elatocladus morphology are of uncertain taxonomic position within conifers.[1]

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Elatocladus
Temporal range: Triassic–Cretaceous
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnosperms
Division: Pinophyta
Genus: Elatocladus
Halle, 1913
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