GEINITZIACEAE Kunzmann, 1999

Heřmanová, Zuzana, Kvaček, Jiří, Dašková, Jiřina & Halamski, Adam T., 2020, Plant reproductive structures and other mesofossils from Coniacian / Santonian of Lower Silesia, Poland, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 61) 23 (3), pp. 1-23 : 7

Family GEINITZIACEAE Kunzmann, 1999 Genus GEINITZIA Endlicher, 1847

Type species. Araucarites reichenbachii Geinitz, 1842, p. 98 , pl. 24, 4 = Geinitzia reichenbachii (Geinitz) Hollick and Jeffrey, 1909, p. 38 , pl. 5, figs. 7-10, pl. 8, figs. 3, 4, pl. 16 figs. 2-4, pl. 17 figs. 1-4, pl. 18, figs. 1-4

Remarks. The material of sterile shoots is assigned to this genus, as suggested by Harris (1969) and Harris et al. (1979). It is characterised by helically arranged needles that are triangular in cross-section, and having a conspicuous keel. Our material shows all those characters very clearly.