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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of fossil ferns established by Schimper (1869), which is related to Odontopteris by the mode of attachment of the lateral veins, and to Neuropteris by their direction, but differs from all the forms of the Carboniferous by its peculiar nervation. It occurs in the coal-measures of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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