Walkomiella

Walkomiella
Temporal range: Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Division:
Pinophyta
Class:
Pinopsida
Order:
incertae sedis
Family:
incertae sedis
Genus:
†Walkomiella
Species
  • †W. indica (Surange & Singh 1953)
  • †W. transvaalensis
  • †W. australis (Florin 1940)

Walkomiella is an extinct conifer-like gymnosperm genus which occurred in India and Africa in the Lower Permian, and in Australia in the Upper Permian.

It was named for Arthur Bache Walkom, an Australian palaeobotanist.

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