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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | †Cordaitales |
| Family: | †Cordaitaceae |
| Genus: | †Cordaicarpus Geinitz (1862) |
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Cordaicarpus is a form genus named by Geinitz (1862) and redefined by Seward (1917) to avoid confusion with another genus and to establish that the genus refers only seeds. Seward defined the differences between Cordaicarpus and Samaropsis.[1]
- ^ Juliane Marques De Souza and Roberto Iannuzzi (2009), "The Genus Cordaicarpus Geinitz In The Lower Permian Of The Paraná Basin, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil" (PDF), Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 12 (1)