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Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Introduction to the Bennettitales, the cycadeoids.
Philippe Choler, Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d'Altitude, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble: Biologie Evolutive Végétale. Concepts and methods in evolutionary biology (in French). Navigate from "Plan du cours" (access to about 335 slides). Go to: Bennettitales (1), and Bennettitales (2).
C.J. Cleal et al. (2006): A clarification of the type of the morphogenus Nilssoniopteris Nathorst (Gymnospermophyta, Bennettitales, fossiles). PDF file, Taxon, 55: 219-222.
! Peter R. Crane and Patrick S. Herendeen (2009): Bennettitales from the Grisethorpe Bed (Middle Jurassic) at Cayton Bay, Yorkshire, UK. PDF file, American Journal of Botany, 96: 284-295. See also here (abstract).
Else Marie Friis et al. (2007): Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales. Abstract, Nature 450: 549-552.
Gerhard Leubner Lab, University Freiburg, Germany: Seed Evolution. Go to: Jurassic parc/Mesozoic era: Extinct gymnosperms and living ancient gymnosperms. Extant Cycadales and extinct Bennettitales.
John M. Miller (gigantopteroid.org), School of Pure and Applied Sciences,
University of the South Pacific (USP):
Origin
of Angiosperms. See also here
or navigate from essay
contents. Go to:
!
Bennettitales.
The Palm and Cycad Society of Florida. The fossil Cycads. With paintings and reconstructions of Douglas Henderson, John Sibbick, and Mark Hallett. Go to: Cretaceous Cycadales. Reconstruction images, image of Cycadeoidea marylandica.
! Kathleen B. Pigg, Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University: Laboratory. Go to: The Cycads, Cycadeoids (Bennettitales) and Ginkgophytes.
Christian Pott, Natural History Museum Stockholm: Bennettitaleans of the world. The aim of this website is to compile as much information as possible about this enigmatic group of gymnosperms. Under construction.
! C. Pott et al. (2010): Late Palaeozoic foliage from China displays affinities to Cycadales rather than to Bennettitales necessitating a re-evaluation of the Palaeozoic Pterophyllum species. PDF file, Acta Palaeontol. Pol., 55: 57-168.
Pott, C., Kerp, J.H.F., Zijlstra, G. & van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A. (2007): Proposal to conserve the name Pterophyllum (Foss., Bennettitales) with a conserved type. PDF file, Taxon 56 (3): 966-967.
ROTHWELL, GAR W.1 and RUTH STOCKEY2. 1Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens; 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton: Systematic characters of ovulate Cycadeoidea/Bennettites cones from the Cretaceous of Vancouver and Hornby Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Abstract. Botany 2001, August 12 - 16, 2001; Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Vincent L. Santucci, National Park Service, Kemmerer, WY, and Marikka Hughes, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Paleobotany Division, New Haven: Fossil Cycad National Monument: A Case of Paleontological Resource Mismanagement.
Senckenberg Natural History Museum and Centre for Biodiversity Research, Frankfurt am Main: Entwicklung der Pflanzenwelt. Easy to understand introduction (in German). Image and reconstruction of Cycadeoidea.
School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK: Geology Collection, Plants. Go to: Jurassic. Images of Cycadeoidea, Cycadeoidea gigantea, Cycadeoidea microphylla.
Hans Steur, Ellecom, The Netherlands: The Jurassic flora of North Yorkshire, Bennettitales from Yorkshire.
Ralph E. Taggart, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University: Mesozoic Cycadeoids.
Leonard B. Thien, Hiroshi Azuma, and Shoichi Kawano: New Perspectives on the Pollination Biology of Basal Angiosperms. Abstract, International Journal of Plant Sciences, volume 161 (2000).
! Johanna H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert (2008): The Jurassic fossil plant record of the UK area. PDF file, Proceedings of the Geologists´ Association 119: 59-72. See fig. 6 (after Cleal et al. 2001), how to distinguish bennettialean leaf shapes!
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Bennettitales.
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