Ginkgoales

Ginkgoales is a plant order containing only one extant

species: Ginkgo biloba, the ginkgo tree.[1] It is monotypic,
(the only taxon) within the class Ginkgoopsida, which
itself is monotypic within the division Ginkgophyta. The
order includes ve families, of which only Ginkgoaceae
remains extant.

Eocene fossil leaf from the Tranquille Shale of

MacAbee, British Columbia, Canada

Gallery of Ginkgo fossils

Fossil
of
Ginkgo huttoni. Photo taken at Naturalis Museum
in Leyden, Netherlands.

A 6.7 cm tall Ginkgo biloba

leaf, with insect herbivory. Klondike Mountain
Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington,
USA, Eocene, Ypresian, 49 million years old

Fossil of Ginkgoites
huttoni

2 References

A 70 mm-wide
Ginkgo biloba leaf. Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA,
Eocene, Ypresian, 49 million years old

Ginkgo biloba

[1] Christenhusz, M. J. M., J. L. Reveal, A. Farjon, M.

F. Gardner, R. R. Mill, and M. W. Chase (2011). A
new classication and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms. Phytotaxa 19:5570. http://www.mapress.
com/phytotaxa/content/2011/f/pt00019p070.pdf

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