Cycadeoidea

Cycadeoidea
Temporal range:
Life reconstruction of Cycadeoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Order: †Bennettitales
Family: †Cycadeoidaceae
Genus: †Cycadeoidea
Buckland, 1828
Type species
†Cycadeoidea megalophylla Buckland
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Mantellia Pomel
  • Cylindropodium Saporta
  • Bennettites Carruth.
  • Clathropodium Saporta
  • Cycadea Capellini & Solms
  • Schizopodium Morière
  • Tysonia Fontaine

Cycadeoidea is an extinct genus of bennettitalean plants known from the Cretaceous (and possibly the Jurassic) of North America, Europe and Asia. They grew as cycad-like plants with a short trunk topped with a crown of leaves.

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