Alethopteris Temporal range:
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Alethopteris grandini, late Carboniferous, Kansas. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | † Pteridospermatophyta |
Order: | † Medullosales |
Family: | † Alethopteridaceae |
Genus: | † Alethopteris |
Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil pteridospermatophytes (seed ferns) that developed in the Carboniferous period (around 360 to 300 million years ago). [1]