Araucarites

Araucarites
Temporal range: Permian to Eocene
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Lithograph of the holotype specimen of Araucarites ooliticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Araucariales
Family: Araucariaceae
Genus: Araucarites
Presl 1838
Synonyms
  • Kaidacarpum Carruthers, 1868

Araucarites is an extinct genus of conifer, used to refer to female conifer cones and cone scales that resemble those of the family Araucariaceae. Species assigned to the genus (which may not all belong to Araucariaceae) lived in the Permian to Eocene and have been found worldwide.