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 lived in the Permian to Eocene and have been found worldwide.
Species
A number of species have been described in Araucarites. :A. aquiensis :A. goeppertiGreat Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic, England (originally assumed to be a screw pine (Pandanus), and described as Kaidacarpum ooliticumCarruthers 1868 renamed Pandanocarpum ooliticum Zigno (1873) comb nov., assigned to Araucarites by Seward in 1917 :A. pachacuteci :A. selseyensis :A. stockeyi == References ==