Reconstruction of the extinct progymnosperm plant Archaeopteris macilenta based on fossils from the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Class:
†Progymnospermopsida
Order:
†Archaeopteridales
Families
†Archaeopteridaceae
The Archaeopteridales are an extinct order of plants belonging to Progymnospermae, and dominant forest trees of the Late Devonian. They reproduced with spores rather than seeds. They were the evolutionary precursors of the conifers of gymnosperms which also include cycads and gingko. [1]
^Taylor, Edith L.; Taylor, Thomas N.; Krings, Michael (2009). Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Academic Press. pp. 271–74. ISBN 9780080557830.
The Archaeopteridales are an extinct order of plants belonging to Progymnospermae, and dominant forest trees of the Late Devonian. They reproduced with...
gymnosperms and ferns. The genus Archaeopteris is placed in the order Archaeopteridales and family Archaeopteridaceae. The name is similar to that of the...
†Scougonophytales Order †Aneurophytales Order †Cecropsidales Order †Archaeopteridales Order †Protopityales Order †Stenokoleales Order †Calamopityales Order...
orders, the more 'primitive' Aneurophytales and the more 'advanced' Archaeopteridales. (The former order had earlier been proposed by Kräusel & Weyland...
Family 2. Botryopteridaceae Family 3. Anachoropteridaceae Order 3. Archaeopteridales Subclass 2. Eusporangitae Order 1. Ophioglossales Order 2. Marattiales...
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