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单词 cordaitales
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Cordaitales


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Noun1.Cordaitales - extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian period; probably extinct since the Mesozoic eraorder Cordaitalesplant order - the order of plantsclass Coniferopsida, Coniferophyta, Coniferophytina, Coniferopsida, subdivision Coniferophytina - cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian)Cordaitaceae, family Cordaitaceae - chiefly Paleozoic plants; Cordaites is the chief and typical genus

Cordaitales


Cordaitales

[‚kȯr·dā‚ī′tā·lēz] (paleobotany) An extensive natural grouping of forest trees of the late Paleozoic.

Cordaitales

 

an order of extinct gymnosperms. The parts of the members of the order are described by the various type genera: the leaves, by Cordaites and Rufloria; the strobile clusters, by Cordaianthus; the seeds, by Cardiocarpus; the wood, by Dadoxylon and Araucarioxylon; and the impressions, by Artisia. The Cordaitales were large trees. Their wood typically had tightly grouped, sealed pores on the walls of the tracheids. The leaves were 20–50 cm and more in length and lanceolate, linear, or scapular in shape, with a parallel or flabellate vein system. The reproductive organs, which looked like catkins, bore strobiles. Each strobile contained scales in a tight spiral around the axis that gave way on the upper side to ovules in the female and groups of microsporangia in the male.

Cordaitales evolved from plants of the progymnosperm type, and it is possible that they in turn were the ancestors of the conifers. In the Carboniferous period and at the beginning of the Permian, the Cordaitales grew in tropical Euramerican areas, in the nontropical Angara, or Tungus, region, and in the Gondwara; in the later Permian they could be found in large numbers only in the Angara region. The leaves of Cordaitales are important in stratigraphy.

REFERENCES

Meien, S. V. Kordaitovye verkhnego paleozoyia Severnoi Evrazii. In Trudy Geologicheskogo in-ta AN SSSR, 1966, issue 150.
Florin, R. “Evolution in Cordaites and Conifers.” Acta Horti Bergiani, 1951, vol. 15, no. 11.

V. A. VAKHRAMEEV

Cordaitales


Cordaitales

an extinct order of carboniferous GYMNOSPERMS having the form of tall, slender trees at the top of which was a crown of branches bearing large, elongated leaves.

Cordaitales


  • noun

Synonyms for Cordaitales

noun extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads

Synonyms

  • order Cordaitales

Related Words

  • plant order
  • class Coniferopsida
  • Coniferophyta
  • Coniferophytina
  • Coniferopsida
  • subdivision Coniferophytina
  • Cordaitaceae
  • family Cordaitaceae
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