Bennettites Palæobot.
(ˌbɛnəˈtaɪtiːz)
[mod.L., f. surname of John Joseph Bennett (1801–1876), English botanist, + -ites (see -ite1).]
A genus of gymnospermous fossil plants having seeds borne on long stalks.
| 1871 W. Carruthers in Trans. Linnean Soc. XXVI. 695 To this genus I have given the name Bennettites, after my distinguished colleague. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 546/1 The best preserved specimens of the true Bennettites type..are from the Lower Greensand and Wealden of England, and from Upper Mesozoic strata in North America, Italy and France. Ibid. 547/1 It is clear that Bennettites differed in many essential respects from the few modern survivors of the Cycadophyta. |