Explore: Fossil Cycads

palms or ferns, but are not closely related to either group. Cycads are gymnosperms. Cycads have specialized pollinators, usually a specific beetle, and

in 1893. There were believed to be large deposits of Cretaceous cycad fossils. (Cycads are plants resembling ferns, although not related to them. The ones

Extracting edible starch from the sago cycad requires special care due to the poisonous nature of cycads. Cycad sago is used for many of the same purposes

Göppert, he became interested in paleobotany, the study of fossil plants, notably the fossil Cycads. Along with Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda, Pieter Harting

on fossil wood Archived 19 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 2006. Robert Buckler (1999) A brief review of the fossil cycads. PDF

seed plants, the cycads. In 1899 the German palaeobotanist Henry Potonié coined the term "Cycadofilices" ("cycad-ferns") for such fossils, suggesting that

A living fossil is a term for an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record, though scientifically the

the only genus of cycad found across the region, with the exception for Australia, where cycads native to all three families of cycads are found. Despite

including shrub and cycad-like forms. The foliage of bennettitaleans is superficially nearly indistinguishable from that of cycads, but they are distinguished

Mammoth Site Fossil Cycad National Monument (No longer exists) Dinosaur Valley State Park Ladonia Fossil Park, Ladonia, Texas Mineral Wells Fossil Park, Mineral