Cycadeoidea
| Cycadeoidea Temporal range: | |
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| C. marylandica specimen on display at the National Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Order: | †Bennettitales |
| Family: | †Cycadeoidaceae |
| Genus: | †Cycadeoidea Buckland, 1828 |
| Type species | |
| †Cycadeoidea megalophylla Buckland | |
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Cycadeoidea is an extinct genus of bennettitalean plants known from the Cretaceous (and possibly the Jurassic) of North America, Europe and Asia. They grew as cycad-like plants with a short trunk topped with a crown of leaves.
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