Archaeopteridales
Sign in to saveThe 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 ginkgo.
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Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Archaeopteridales, and connects out to Progymnosperm, plant and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Late Devonian extinctions, Late Devonian plants and Middle Devonian first appearances.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Progymnosperm
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- Archaeopteris reconstruction.jpg
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- Archaeopteridales
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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 ginkgo.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Archaeopteridales” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.