The Archaeopteridaceae are an extinct

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

of plants belonging to

Progymnospermae The progymnosperms are an extinct group of woody, spore-bearing plants that is presumed to have evolved from the trimerophytes, and eventually gave rise to the gymnosperms, ancestral to acrogymnosperms and angiosperms (flowering plants). They h ...

, and were dominant forest trees of the Late Devonian.

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Middle Devonian plants Prehistoric plant families Late Devonian plants Middle Devonian first appearances Late Devonian extinctions {{devonian-plant-stub