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Definition of Order Cordaitales
1. Noun. Extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic era.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Coniferopsida, Coniferophyta, Coniferophytina, Coniferopsida, Subdivision Coniferophytina
Member holonyms: Cordaitaceae, Family Cordaitaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Cordaitales
Literary usage of Order Cordaitales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Conifer Ancestors. Paleozoic to present, trees and shrubs with typically
parallel-veined leaves, mostly long extinct. Order CORDAITALES. ..."
2. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"As far back as Devonian time, preceding the great coal period (Carboniferous),
fossils have been found of a plant, Cordaites (of the order Cordaitales), ..."
3. Fundamentals of Botany by Charles Stuart Gager (1916)
"As far back as Devonian time, preceding the great coal period (Carboniferous),
fossils have been found of a plant, Cordaites (of the order Cordaitales), ..."
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