Equisetites
Extinct genus of vascular plants in the family Equisetaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Equisetites is an extinct genus of vascular plants within Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.[22] The genus was named by Sternberg (1833)[1] and contains at least 40 named species and two unnamed species,[23] with the earliest known species being E. hemingwayi from the Westphalian of Yorkshire, England, though the affinity of this genus to modern Equistaceae is uncertain.[24]
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Equisetites | |
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Specimens of E. arenaceus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Subclass: | Equisetidae |
Order: | Equisetales |
Family: | Equisetaceae |
Genus: | †Equisetites Sternberg, 1833[1] |
Type species | |
†Equisetites muensteri Sternberg, 1833[1] | |
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