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Welwitschiales

Cycadopsida - Welwitschiales

Taxonomy
Welwitschiales is an order. It is extant.

It was assigned to Cycadopsida by Meyen (1984).

Subtaxa
Welwitschiaceae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Welwitschiales Meyen p. 90

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomEmbryophyta
phylumCycadophytaBessey 1907
RankNameAuthor
classCycadopsidaBrongniart 1843
orderWelwitschiales
orderWelwitschiales

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Fm. Welwitschiaceae Caruel
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G. Welwitschia Hooker 1862
G. †Welwitschiapites Bolkhovitina
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†Welwitschiapites canaliculus Lele and Kulkarni 1969
†Welwitschiapites extansus Bharadwaj and Salujha 1964
†Welwitschiapites magnus Maithy 1965
†Welwitschiapites minutus Maithy 1965
†Welwitschiapites tenuis Bharadwaj and Salujha 1964
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Late/Upper Cretaceous or 293.52000 to 66.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 290.1 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Permian298.9 - 251.902India (Jharkhand) Welwitschiapites tenuis (224608)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1India (Jharkhand) Welwitschiapites magnus, Welwitschiapites minutus (225321)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1India Welwitschiapites canaiculus (30147) Welwitschiapites magnus (30151)
Artinskian - Kungurian290.1 - 272.3India (Jharkhand) Welwitschiapites tenuis (224664 224701 224722)
Wordian - Lopingian266.9 - 252.17India Welwitschiapites extansus, Welwitschiapites tenuis (30166)
Lopingian259.9 - 252.17India (Madhya Pradesh) Welwitschiapites sp. (224895)
Lopingian259.9 - 252.17India (West Bengal) Welwitschiapites extansus, Welwitschiapites tenuis (224894)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0India Welwitschiapites sp. (224605)