Ginkgoites

Ginkgoites
Temporal range: Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous
~225–74.8 Ma
fossil leaves identified as Gingkoites
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Ginkgophyta
Class: Ginkgoopsida
Order: Ginkgoales
Family: Ginkgoaceae
Genus: †Ginkgoites
Seward, 1919 emend. Watson et al., 1999
Type species
Ginkgoites sibirica[1]
(Heer) Seward, 1919
Other species
  • G. acosmia
  • G. aganzhenensis
  • G. antartica
  • G. australis
  • G. brauniana
  • G. cascadensis
  • G. crassipes
  • G. eximia
  • G. feruglioi
  • G. huttoni
  • G. myrioneurus
  • G. obovata
  • G. obrutschewii
  • G. patagonica
  • G. pluripartita
  • G. tigrensis
  • G. troedssonii
  • G. villardeseoanii
  • G. waarrensis

Ginkgoites is a genus of extinct plants belonging to Ginkgoaceae. Fossils of these plants have been found around the globe during the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, with fossils also known from the Paleogene. The name was created as a form genus in 1919 by Albert Seward, who stated: "I ... propose to employ the name Ginkgoites for leaves that it is believed belong either to plants generically identical with Ginkgo or to very closely allied types".[2]

  1. ^ Villar De Seoane, L.; Cúneo, N. R.; Escapa, I.; Wilf, P.; Gandolfo, M. A. (2015). "Ginkgoites patagonica (Berry) comb. nov. from the Eocene of Patagonia, Last Ginkgoalean Record in South America". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 176 (4): 346–263. doi:10.1086/680221. hdl:11336/26298. S2CID 14982181.
  2. ^ Albert Charles Seward (1919), Fossil plants: for students of botany and geology, vol. 4, Cambridge University Press, p. 10, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.54901