Cunninghamites elegans
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Cunninghamites elegans is an extinct conifer species in the family Taxodiaceae
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Cunninghamites is a genus of the European Late Cretaceous
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Remains of C. elegans needles have been found in carcasses of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus
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Taxodiaceae
The Taxodiaceae were at one time regarded as a distinct plant family comprising the following ten genera of coniferous trees:*Athrotaxis*Cryptomeria*Cunninghamia*†Cunninghamites*Glyptostrobus*Metasequoia*Sciadopitys...
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Cunninghamites is a genus of the European Late Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...
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Remains of C. elegans needles have been found in carcasses of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus is a genus of crestless hadrosaurid dinosaur. It contains two species: Edmontosaurus regalis and Edmontosaurus annectens. Fossils of E. regalis have been found in rocks of western North America that date from the late Campanian stage of the Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago,...
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