Araucarites
| Araucarites | |
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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 |
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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.