PINOPSIDA sensu Ruggiero et al., 2015

Pole, Mike, 2019, Middle-Late Jurassic plant assemblages of the Catlins coast, New Zealand, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 51) 23 (3), pp. 1-48 : 24

Class PINOPSIDA sensu Ruggiero et al., 2015

Remarks. In the absence of cuticle, placing coniferous foliage into taxa is a tenuous activity. The conifer foliage known from the Catlins Coast falls into at least four of the form-genera that were clarified by Harris (1969b). In the present study these include one that has elongate, single-veined leaves twisted into dorsi-ventral plane (i.e., distichous) placed into Elatocladus , one with broader leaves, multi-veined leaves placed into Podozamites , and one with small, scale-like leaves, placed in Pagiophyllum . In addition, Arber (1917, pl. 13, figs. 8, 10) figured shoots with the very short leaves of a typical Brachyphyllum .