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Alethopteris

Alethopteris
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Alethopteris grandini, late Carboniferous, Kansas. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: †Pteridospermatophyta
Order: †Medullosales
Family: †Alethopteridaceae
Genus: †Alethopteris
Species
  • A. branneri
  • A. lobifolia
  • A. lonchiticus
  • A. roesserti
  • A. sullivantii
  • A. valida
  • A. whitbyensis
  • A. whitneyi

Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil pteridospermatophytes (seed ferns) that developed in the Pennsylvanian (around 320 to 300 million years ago).[1]

Alethopteris, at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Alethopteris sp.
Alethopteris Serlii on laminated mudstone from St. Clair, Pennsylvania.

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  1. ^ "Seed Fern Fossil". www.fossilmuseum.net. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
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