Caytonia nathorstii

Caytonia nathorstii
Temporal range: Jurassic

Caytonia nathorstii ovulate structure, Middle Jurassic, Gristhorpe Bed, Cloughton Formation, Cayton Bay, Yorkshire.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridospermatophyta
Order: Peltaspermales
Family: Caytoniaceae
Genus: Caytonia
Species: C. nathorstii
Binomial name
Caytonia nathorstii

Caytonia nathorstii is an extinct species of seed ferns.

A complete reconstruction of Caytonia nathorstii plant Retallack and Dilcher 1988

Description

Caytonia has berry like cupules with numerous small seeds arrayed along axes

Whole plant reconstructions

Different organs attributed to the same original plant can be reconstructed from co-occurrence at the same locality and from similarities in the stomatal apparatus and other anatomical peculiarities of fossilized cuticles.


References

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