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Agathis

Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae

Taxonomy
Agathis was named by Salisbury (1807). It is extant. It is considered to be a form taxon.

It was assigned to Araucariaceae by Hill and Bigwood (1987), Escapa et al. (2018) and Stiles et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1807Agathis Salisbury
1987Agathis Hill and Bigwood
2018Agathis Escapa et al.
2020Agathis Stiles et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
superphylumTracheophyta
Pteridobiotina
superphylumPteridophytanae
phylumEquisetophytaScott 1900
RankNameAuthor
classEquisetopsidaAgardh 1825
subclassPinidae
familyAraucariaceaeHenckel and Hochstetter 1865
genusAgathisSalisbury 1807

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.

G. Agathis Salisbury 1807
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Agathis berwickensis Pole et al. 1993
Agathis brevigongylodes Hill et al. 2008
Agathis kendrickii Hill and Merrifield 1993
Agathis tasmanica Hill and Bigwood 1987
Agathis vittatus Hill et al. 2008
Agathis zamunerae Wilf et al. 2014
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Oxfordian to the top of the Pleistocene or 163.50000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (73 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Oxfordian - Tithonian163.5 - 145.0Australia (New South Wales) Podozamites lanceolatus (29461)
Late/Upper Cretaceous - Eocene100.5 - 33.9New Zealand (Canterbury) A. sp. (170890 170891)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Early/Lower Paleocene70.6 - 61.7Argentina (Chubut) A. sp. (194832 232493 232494)
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8Australia (New South Wales) A. vittatus (169293)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Argentina (Chubut) Araucaria TY014 (133056) Zamia tertiaria (133043 133045 133051 133063 133064 133066) Zamia tertiaria, Araucaria TY014 (133047 133054)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6Australia (Tasmania) A. sp. (167648 167653 167656 167659)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6Argentina (Chubut) A. zamunerae (153415)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71Australia (South Australia) Agathis indet. (167541)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71Argentina (Rio Negro) A. zamunerae (153416)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene47.8 - 33.9Australia (Western Australia) A. sp. (169414)
Middle Eocene - Oligocene47.8 - 23.03Australia (Western Australia) A. kendrickii (167545)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Australia (Tasmania) A. sp. 3, A. sp. 2, A. sp. 1, A. sp., A. spp., A. vittatus, A. brevigongylodes (166832) A. sp., A. brevigongylodes (166597) A. tasmanica (166705)
Early/Lower Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene33.9 - 15.97Australia (Victoria) A. berwickensis (167544) A. sp., A. yallournensis (169006 169007 169237)
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene28.4 - 15.97Australia (Tasmania) A. sp., A. brevigongylodes (169294)
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene28.4 - 15.97New Zealand (Southland) A. sp. (169981)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Australia (New South Wales) A. sp. (224044)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Australia (Victoria) Agathis indet. (172833 172836 172837 172855 172867 172868 172870 172871 172873 172874 172875 172876 172877 172878 172879 172880 172881 172882 172883 172884)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Australia (Queensland) A. sp. (168819 168822 168888 168889 168890 168891 168892 168893 168904 168918 168924)
Middle Pleistocene - Holocene0.774 - 0.0Australia (Queensland) A. sp. (168896)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Australia (Queensland) Agathis indet. (168747) A. sp. (168749 168750 168751 168752 168753)