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Definition of Genus pecopteris

1. Noun. Genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pecopteris

Literary usage of Genus pecopteris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"... with few of the finer forms of the family, of the genus Pecopteris ; among which few there are the ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1844)
"The next genus, Pecopteris, is stated to be the most abundant fossil of the coal-formation, no fewer than sixty species having been described: individuals ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"The genus Pecopteris, especially characteristic of the higher beds of the Upper Carboniferous, and of the Permian, contains a large number of species, ..."

4. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"... from the pebbles of Grand' Croix and placed in the genus Pecopteris. These species are named by Stur Grand' ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... but they certainly occupied a prominent position, and this prominence, rests on the evidence of the cosmopolitan frond genus Pecopteris, ..."

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