Voltziales

Voltziales Temporal range: Late Carboniferous–Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Voltzia heterophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	†Voltziales Andreanszky 1954
Families
†Utrechtiaceae †

Voltziales is an extinct order of conifers.

The group contains the ancestral lineages from which all modern conifer groups emerged. The earliest Voltzialean conifers appear in the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian).^[1] Modern conifer lineages emerged from voltzialean ancestors from the Late Permian to Jurassic.^[2] Voltzialean conifers outside modern groups, such as Podozamites, survived into the Cretaceous.^[3] One of the earliest and most primitive genera is Walchia, known originally for its leaf form genus, and primitive members of the order are commonly called "Walchian conifers".^[4] The order consists of these families:^{[citation needed]}

• Utrechtiaceae
• Buriadiaceae
• Krassiloviaceae

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External links[]

• Voltziales (palaeos.org)^{[dead link]}
• Data related to Voltziales at Wikispecies