Dorycordaites
| Dorycordaites Temporal range: from Carboniferous Desmoinesian age to Permian, | |
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| Fossil leaves of Dorycordaites affinis on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnosperms |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | †Cordaitales |
| Family: | †Cordaitaceae |
| Genus: | †Dorycordaites R. Zeiller, 1888 |
Dorycordaites is a genus of extinct gymnosperms.
Distribution
Fossils of this genus have been found in Permian of Egypt, France, Morocco, Niger, Spain and in Desmoinesian of United States.
References
Categories:
- Conifer genera
- Pennsylvanian plants
- Permian plants
- Permian life of Africa
- Permian life of Europe
- Fossils of Egypt
- Fossils of France
- Fossils of Morocco
- Fossils of Niger
- Fossils of Spain
- Fossils of the United States
- Carboniferous United States
- Fossil taxa described in 1888
- Cordaitales
- Prehistoric gymnosperm genera
- Prehistoric gymnosperm stubs
- Paleozoic plant stubs
- Silurian stubs