Fig.1 A whole-plant reconstruction of Caytonia nathorstii[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Division:
†Pteridospermatophyta
Order:
†Caytoniales Gothan, 1932
Family:
†Caytoniaceae Kräusel, 1926
Form genera
Caytonanthus pollen organ
Caytonia ovulate structure
Sagenopteris palmate leaves
Reymanownaea pollen organ
The Caytoniales (Figs. 1-2) are an extinct order of seed plants known from fossils collected throughout the Mesozoic Era, around 252 to 66 million years ago.[2][3][4] They are regarded as seed ferns because they are seed-bearing plants with fern-like leaves.[4] Although at one time considered angiosperms because of their berry-like cupules,[5] that hypothesis was later disproven.[6] Nevertheless, some authorities consider them likely ancestors or close relatives of angiosperms.[7] The origin of angiosperms remains unclear, and they cannot be linked with any known seed plants groups with certainty.
^Niklas, Karl J. (1997). The Evolutionary Biology of Plants. University Of Chicago Press. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-226-58083-8.
^National Academy of Sciences (2000). Ayala, Francisco J.; Fitch, Walter M.; Clegg, Michael T. (eds.). Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years after Stebbins. National Academies Press. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-309-07099-7.
^ abArnold, Chester (1947). An Introduction To Paleobotany. Miller Press. p. 428. ISBN 978-1-4067-1861-4.
^Thomas, Hamshaw (1925). "The Caytoniales, A new group of angiospermous plants from the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B213 (402–410): 299–363. doi:10.1098/rstb.1925.0006.
^Harris, T.M (1933). "A new member of the Caytoniales". New Phytologist. 32 (2): 97–114. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1933.tb07001.x.
^Doyle, J.A. (1978). "Origin of angiosperms". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 9: 365–392). doi:10.1146/annurev.es.09.110178.002053.
preserved short shoots are evidence that Caytoniales were seasonally deciduous, shrubs and trees. Caytoniales had fertile branches with seed-bearing cupules...
Ginkgoopsida: from Peltaspermales to Ginkgoales, Leptostrobales and Caytoniales". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. Actualités Botaniques....
"Mesozoic seed ferns" including the Petriellales, Corystospermales and Caytoniales. Their discovery attracted considerable attention at the time, as the...
glossopterids, corystosperms, Petriellales Pentoxylales, Bennettitales and Caytoniales), but not the Gnetales. Phylogeny of anthophytes and gymnosperms based...
foliage from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina assigned to the order Caytoniales. The genus was first established by Sergio Archangelsky based on material...
morphologically abaxial. This suggests that cupules of the kind produced by the Caytoniales or Glossopteridales may have evolved into the outer integument of angiosperms...
living seed plant groups. A prominent group of Jurassic seed ferns is the Caytoniales, which reached their zenith during the Jurassic, with widespread records...
Order Cordaitales Order Calamopityales Order Callistophytales Order Caytoniales Order Gigantopteridales Order Glossopteridales Order Lyginopteridales...
with fern-like foliage, including groups such as Corystospermaceae and Caytoniales. The exact origins of angiosperms are uncertain, although molecular evidence...
"gigantopterids" became the ancestors of angiosperms and/or Bennettitales and/or Caytoniales. Gigantopterid fossils were documented as early as 1883, but only investigated...
evidence of such development, apart from Cheiroleidiacean conifers and Caytoniales and other groups of seed ferns. In terms of biomass, the Jurassic flora...