Calycites
| Calycites Temporal range:
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| Calycites ardtunensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Calycites A. Massalongo, 1850 |
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Calycites is an extinct form genus of flowering plant used as a dustbin for fossil flowers of uncertain relationship.
Species
[edit]The following species are assigned to this genus:[1][2]
- Calycites alatus Hollick, 1904
- Calycites ardtunensis Crane, 1988[3][4]
- Calycites davillaformis E.W.Berry, 1916
- Calycites diospyriformis Newberry, 1895
- Calycites hydrangeoides Krassilov, 2005
- Calycites lythroides Krassilov, 2005 (junior homonym)
- Calycites lythroides Visiani & Massalongo, 1856 (Sr homonym)
- Calycites middendorfensis E.W.Berry, 1914
- Calycites obovatus Hollick, 1906
- Calycites ostryaformis E.W.Berry, 1916
- Calycites parvus Newberry, 1895
- Calycites pentasepalus Massalongo, 1850
- Calycites polysepala Newberry, 1868
- Calycites puryearensis E.W.Berry, 1930
- Calycites quinquesepalus Menzel, 1913
- Calycites rhizophoroides E.W.Berry, 1930
- Calycites ripleyensis E.W.Berry, 1925
- Calycites sexpartitus E.W.Berry, 1919
- Calycites verbenaceus Menzel, 1913
Species moved to other genera:
- Calycites hexaphylla Lesq., 1873 moved to Diospyros hexaphylla (Lesq.) Knowlt., 1920[5]
- Calycites mikanoides MacGinitie, 1941 moved to Macginistemon mikanoides (MacGinitie) Manchester, 1986[6]
- Calycites milanensis E.W.Berry, 1930 jr synonym to Heisteria sapindifolium (Hollick) Berry, 1938[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Calycites Massalongo, 1850". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
- ^ "Calycites". International Fossil Plants Name Index. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
- ^ Crane, P.R. (1988). "Abelia-like fruits from the Palaeogene of Scotland and North America". Tertiary Research. 9: 21–39. ISSN 0308-9649.
- ^ "Calycites ardtunensis". International Fossil Plants Name Index. Retrieved 2025-11-01.
- ^ a b LaMotte, R.S. (1952). Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950. Geological Society of America Memoirs. Vol. 51. Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/MEM51.
- ^ Manchester, S. R. (1986). "Vegetative and reproductive morphology of an extinct plane tree (Platanaceae) from the Eocene of western North America". Botanical Gazette. 147 (2): 200–226. doi:10.1086/337587. S2CID 83715341.
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