Ginkgoites

Ginkgoites is a genus that refers to extinct plants belonging to Ginkgoaceae. Fossils of these plants have been found around the globe during the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Paleocene-age Porcupine Hills Formation in Alberta. The name was created as a form genus in 1919 by Albert Seward who stated: "I ... propose to employ the name "Ginkgoites" for leaves that it is believed belong either to plants generically identical with "Ginkgo" or to very closely allied types".