Dicroidium Temporal range:
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Leaf impression of Dicroidium zuberi | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Order: | †Corystospermales |
Family: | †Corystospermaceae |
Genus: | †Dicroidium Gothan (1912) |
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Dicroidium is an extinct genus of fork-leaved seed plants. It is the archetypal genus of the corystosperms, an extinct group of seed plants, often called "seed ferns", assigned to the order Corystospermales or Umkomasiales. Species of Dicroidium were widely distributed and dominant over Gondwana during the Triassic (252 to 201 million years ago). Their fossils are known from South Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent and Antarctica.