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Bennettitales - fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous

plant order - the order of plants

class Cycadopsida, Cycadophyta, Cycadophytina, Cycadopsida, subdivision Cycadophyta, subdivision Cycadophytina - palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)

Bennettitaceae, family Bennettitaceae - a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous

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Botanical Affinities: Gymnospermic (Cycadales, Bennettitales) [09]

SOME MIOSPORES FROM THE EARLY PERMIAN TOBRA FORMATION, SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN

The site protected one of the world's greatest concentrations of Cretaceous-period fossils, known informally as cycads or scientifically as Bennettitales. These 120-million-year-old plant fossils have unique branching features and reproductive systems, and scientists believe they might hold important clues to the evolution of flowering plants.

Gone but not forgotten: Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the park service in 1957, but the story doesn't end there

Furthermore, with the exception of the fern specimens, the lack of cuticles means that the flora here described can only tentatively be ascribed to the Order Bennettitales, as recommended by Rees and Cleal (2004) in their study of specimens in a similar state of preservation from Antarctica.

A fern-bennettitalean floral assemblage in Tithonian-Berriasian travertine deposits (Aguilar Formation, Burgos-Palencia, N Spain) and its palaeoclimatic and vegetational implications/Una asociacion floristica de helechos-bennettitales en acumulaciones travertinicas del Titonico-Berriasiense (Formacion Aguilar, Burgos-Palencia, Espana) y sus implicaciones paleoclimaticas y vegetacionales

The Cycadales (early Permian to Present) and the Bennettitales

Systematics, ontogeny, and phylogenetic implications of exceptional anatomically preserved cycadophyte leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Bearreraig Bay, Skye, northwest Scotland

associated with Mesozoic Bennettitales (Crepet, 1979), suggest that

Cycads of Colombia

Their other name, "Anthophyte," would best become a synonym of Angiosperm, which actually reflects the change in hypothesis: No, the other groups originally included in "anthophyte" (e.g.,gnetopsids, Bennettitales, Pentoxylon) are not closely related and do not have flowers or what can reasonably be interpreted as flower homologues.

The PhyloCode is fatally flawed, and the "Linnaean" System can easily be fixed

Several fossil and extant cycad leaves show an external morphology similar to that of Bennettitales and Pteridosperms.

Fossil Cycadales of Argentina