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CCWIFERALES INCERTAE SEDIS 



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Cyparissidium is characteristic of Lower Cretaceous strata, 

 though Nathorst 1 has recorded a species, C. Nilssonianum, from 

 Rhaetic rocks in Scania with cones having scales more pointed 

 and lanceolate than those of Heer's species. A second Rhaetic 

 species, C. septentrionale, has been transferred by Nathorst to the 

 genus Stachyotaxus 2 . 



B 



FIG. 810. Cyparissidium. A, B, Cyparissidium gracile. C, C. minimum. 

 (A, B, after Heer; C, after Velenovsky; nat. size.) 



Cyparissidium gracile Heer. 



. The type-species (fig. 810, A, B) is one of the most abundant 

 plants in the Kome beds at Pattorfik in West Greenland and it 

 occurs also in the Atane beds. The cones are 20 mm. long and 

 11 20mm. broad with scales having a breadth of 12mm., a 



1 Nathorst (86) p. 103, PI. xxn. 



See page 410. 



