Cunninghamites elegans

Cunninghamites elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Cupressales
Family: Cupressaceae
Genus: †Cunninghamites
Species:
†C. elegans
Binomial name
†Cunninghamites elegans
Synonyms

Cunninghamia elegans Corda, 1846

Cunninghamites elegans is an extinct conifer species in the family Cupressaceae and the genus Cunninghamites.

Cunninghamites is a genus of the European Late Cretaceous flora.[2]

Remains of C. elegans needles have been found in the carcasses of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus.

References

  1. ^ Synopsis coniferarum. S Endlicher - 1847
  2. ^ Taxodiaceous conifers from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). R. W. J. M. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert and J. van der Burgh, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 116, Issues 3-4, Sept 2001, pp. 233-250, doi:10.1016/S0034-6667(01)00092-6


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