Sphenobaiera
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Sphenobaiera Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Sphenobaiera digitata | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Ginkgophyta |
| Class: | Ginkgoopsida |
| Order: | Ginkgoales |
| Family: | incertae familiae |
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Sphenobaiera Florin emend Harris & Millington |
Sphenobaiera is a plant that lived in the Late Cretaceous period. The genus Sphenobaiera is used for plants with wedge-shaped leaves that can be distinguished from Ginkgo, Ginkgoites and Baiera by the lack of a petiole. It became extinct about 72.6 million years ago. The family to which this genus belongs has not been conclusively established; an affinity with the Karkeniaceae has been suggested on morphological grounds.
Sphenobaiera ikorfatensis (Seward) Florin f. papillata Samylina has been found in Lower Cretaceous formations of Western Greenland, the Upper Jurassic of the Asiatic USSR, and the basal rock unit of the Lakota formation of the Black Hills, which Fontaine considered to be of Lower Cretaceous age. It is a ginkgophyte.
In Paleorrota geopark in Brazil. Upper Triassic period, the Santa Maria Formation.
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