Cunninghamites elegans

Cunninghamites elegans is an extinct conifer species in the family Cupressaceae and the genus Cunninghamites.

Cunninghamites elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Cupressales
Family:	Cupressaceae
Genus:	†Cunninghamites
Species:	†C. elegans
Binomial name
†Cunninghamites elegans (Corda) Endlicher, 1847[1]
Synonyms
Cunninghamia elegans Corda, 1846

Cunninghamites is a genus of the European Late Cretaceous flora.^[2]

Remains of C. elegans needles have been found in the carcasses of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus.

References

1. Synopsis coniferarum. S Endlicher - 1847
2. Taxodiaceous conifers from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). R. W. J. M. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert and J. van der Burgh, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 116, Issues 3-4, Sept 2001, pp. 233-250, doi:10.1016/S0034-6667(01)00092-6

External links

• Cunninghamites elegans collections.si.edu
• The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia, Numéros 84 à 85, Edward Wilber Berry, Govt. Print Office, 1914