Cyathea pinnata

A partial frond of Cyathea pinnata leaves ~20cm across. Eocene, Chuckanut Formation, Whatcom County, Washington, USA. Stonerose (Information about this image)

Cladus: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Pteridophyta
Subdivisio: Pterophyta
Classis: Pteridopsida
Ordo: Cyatheales
Familia: Cyatheaceae
Genus: Cyathea
Subgenus: Unassigned
Species: †C. pinnata

Name

* Cyathea pinnata (Macginitie) LaMotte, 1952

Synonyms

* Hemitelia pinnata Macginitie, 1941

Type locality

* Middle Eocene; Chalk Bluffs, Nevada County, California, USA

References

* Pabst, M.B. 1968 "The flora of the Chuckanut Formation—the Equisitales, Filicales, and Coniferales"

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