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Cordaites

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n.1.a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.
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Noun1.Cordaites - tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pinesCordaites - tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers
genus Cordaites
gymnosperm genus - a genus of gymnosperms
Cordaitaceae, family Cordaitaceae - chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus
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Rudolph Florin on the evolution of the vegetative and reproductive structures of the cordaites and early conifers.
The telome theory by Wilson, Carl L. / The Botanical Review
Dawson, 'consists principally of the flattened bark of Sigillarioid and other trees, intermixed with leaves of Ferns and Cordaites, and other herbaceous debris, and with fragments of decayed wood, constituting 'mineral charcoal', all these materials having manifestly alike grown and accumulated where we find them'.
Sir William Dawson (1820-1899): a very modern paleobotanist by Falcon-Lang, Howard J.; Calder, John H. / Atlantic Geology
Unfragmented Cordaites leaves, up to 22 cm in length, are common locally in red mudrock beds and channel sandstone bodies.
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of early Pennsylvanian red beds at ... by Calder, John H.; Rygel, Michael C.; Ryan, R.J.; Falcon-Lang, Howard J.; Hebert, Brian L. / Atlantic Geology
 
 
 
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