Elatocladus

Elatocladus; Temporal range: Triassic–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Genus:	† Elatocladus ; Halle, 1913

Last updated May 29, 2025

Elatocladus is an extinct form genus of Mesozoic sterile conifer leaves, used for shoots with the morphology of "elongated, dorsiventrally flattened leaves with a single vein; divergent from stem". Conifers with leaves of Elatocladus morphology are of uncertain taxonomic position within conifers.^[1]

References

↑ Kvaček, Jiří (2015-01-23). "Elatocladus velenovskyi nom. nov., a characteristic conifer of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin" . Palaeontographica Abteilung B. 292 (1–3): 79–93. Bibcode:2015PalAB.292...79K. doi:10.1127/palb/292/2015/79. ISSN 2194-900X.

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[1] Kvaček, Jiří (2015-01-23). "Elatocladus velenovskyi nom. nov., a characteristic conifer of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin" . Palaeontographica Abteilung B. 292 (1–3): 79–93. Bibcode:2015PalAB.292...79K. doi:10.1127/palb/292/2015/79. ISSN 2194-900X.

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