Cheirophyllum
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| Cheirophyllum Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Ginkgophyta |
| Class: | Ginkgoopsida |
| Order: | Ginkgoales |
| Family: | Ginkgoaceae |
| Genus: | †Cheirophyllum |
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Cheirophyllum is an extinct plant genus that existed during the Permian.[1]
Location
[edit | edit source]In Brazil, fossils of the species C. speculare were located in the outcrop Morro Papalé in the city of Mariana Pimentel. Fossils of the genus have been found in the geopark Paleorrota in the Itararé Subgroup,[1] and date to the Sakmarian age of the Permian period.
References
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Categories:
- Ginkgophyta
- Prehistoric gymnosperm genera
- Permian plants
- Permian first appearances
- Permian extinctions
- Prehistoric plants of South America
- Permian life of South America
- Permian Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Paraná Basin
- Flora of Rio Grande do Sul
- Fossil taxa described in 1967
- Prehistoric gymnosperm stubs
- Paleozoic plant stubs
- Silurian stubs