Caytonia
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Caytonia Temporal range: Jurassic − |
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| Caytonia nathorstii ovulate structure, Middle Jurassic, Gristhorpe Bed, Cloughton Formation, Cayton Bay, Yorkshire. | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridospermatophyta |
| Order: | Caytoniales |
| Family: | Caytoniaceae |
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Caytonia Thomas 1925 |
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Caytonia is an extinct genus of seed ferns.
Caytonia has berry like cupules with numerous small seeds arrayed along axes
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.
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