The Archaeopteridales are an extinct
order
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* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
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of plants belonging to
Progymnospermae, and dominant forest trees of the Late Devonian. They reproduced with spores rather than seeds. They were the evolutionary precursors of the conifers of gymnosperms which also include cycads and gingko.
References
Middle Devonian plants
Prehistoric plant orders
Late Devonian plants
Middle Devonian first appearances
Late Devonian extinctions
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