Celastrinites
{{Short description|Extinct genus of flowering plants}}
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| taxon = Celastrinites
| authority = SaportaEtudes sur la végétation du Sud-Est de la France à l'époque tertiaire. G Saporta, 1866
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- Celastrinites alatus Knowlton
- Celastrinites artocarpidioides Lesquereux
- Celastrinites cowanensis Knowlton
- Celastrinites elegans LesquereuxLeo Lesqureux, 1883. Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 185 and pl. XXXI, fig. 9-10 (in chapter Flora of the Green River Group, in Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 8)
- Celastrinites kolymensis Knowlton
- Celastrinites laevigatus Lesquereux
- Celastrinites wardii
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Celastrinites is an extinct genus of prehistoric plants in the family Celastraceae. Celastrinites wardii is from the Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada. C. elegans is from the Florissant fossil bed of Colorado.
References
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- A catalogue of the Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of North America. Frank Hall Knowlton, 1898
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Category:Cretaceous angiosperms
Category:Prehistoric angiosperm genera
Category:Prehistoric plants of North America
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