Caytonanthus Temporal range: Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	†Pteridospermatophyta
Order:	†Caytoniales
Genus:	†Caytonanthus Harris 1937
Species
Caytonanthus arberi

Caytonanthus is an extinct genus of seed ferns.

Description[edit]

Caytonanthus is the polliniferous organ-genus of the Caytoniales, and it is often found along Sagenopteris and Caytonia. Caytonanthus remains have been found in Greenland, UK, Hungary Russia, Poland, India, Antarctica and Argentina.^[1] Caytonanthus has simple or multiple orders of branches arrayed along axes, each terminal branch bears one or many synangia, each composed by four, partially fused, pollen sacs.^[1]

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