Cunninghamites elegans is an extinct conifer species in the family Cupressaceae and the genus Cunninghamites.
Cunninghamites is a genus of the European Late Cretaceous flora.Taxodiaceous conifers from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). R. W. J. M. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert and J. van der Burgh, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 116, Issues 3-4, Sept 2001, pp. 233-250,
Remains of C. elegans needles have been found in the carcasses of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus.
References
External links Cunninghamites elegans collections.si.edu The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia, Numéros 84 à 85, Edward Wilber Berry, Govt. Print Office, 1914