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Ginkgo adiantoides ✝
Description | Ginkgo adiantoides is an extinct ginkgo species in the family Ginkgoaceae from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_adiantoides, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | species | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Ginkgoopsida : Ginkgoales : Ginkgoaceae : Ginkgo : Ginkgo adiantoides | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Ginkgo adiantoides | ||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Generic Name | Ginkgo | ||||||||||
Scientific Name | Ginkgo adiantoides (Unger) Heer | ||||||||||
Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 113 - 101 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | ||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 13.8 - 5.3 Ma Miocene | ||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. C. Christophel. 1976. Fossil floras of the Smoky Tower locality, Alberta, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 157(1-4):1-43 | ||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_adiantoides |
Fossil Distribution
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!