Ginkgoites

Ginkgoites Temporal range: Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous, 225–74.8 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
fossil leaves identified as Gingkoites
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Ginkgophyta
Class:	Ginkgoopsida
Order:	Ginkgoales
Family:	Ginkgoaceae
Genus:	Ginkgoites
Species
G. huttoni † G. acosmia † G. antartica † G. australis † G. myrioneurus † G. pluripartita † G. obrutschewii † G. tigrensis † G. troedssonii †

Ginkgoites refers to extinct plants belonging to Ginkgoaceae. Fossils of these plants have been found around the globe during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The name was created as a form genus in 1919 by Albert Seward who stated: "I ... propose to employ the name Ginkgoites for leaves that it is believed belong either to plants generically identical with Ginkgo or to very closely allied types".^[1]

Location of palaeontological sites

• In Paleorrota geopark in Brazil. Upper Triassic period, the Santa Maria Formation.^[2]

References

1. Albert Charles Seward (1919), Fossil plants: for students of botany and geology 4, Cambridge University Press, p. 10, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.54901
2. Passo das Tropas, Santa Maria, RS. Marco bioestratigráfico triássico na evolução paleoflorística do Gondwana na Bacia do Paraná