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- Zamites is a genus of fossil tree known from the Mesozoic of North America, Europe and India through the Eocene of North America. It was erected as a form taxon for leaves that superficially resembled the extant cycad Zamia, however it is now believed to belong to a similar but phylogenetically different group, the cyacadeoids (Bennettitales). The fronds are linear or lanceolate in shape, and pinnately compound, with pinnae with parallel veins and smooth margins, and symmetrical and constricted at the base where they are attached obliquely to the upper surface of the rachis. It has been interpreted as a Bennettitalean plant in the family Williamsoniaceae. As explained by Zijlstra & van Konijnenburg-van Cittert (2020), the application of the genus name Zamites has over time drifted away from Brongniart's original concept to one where the species Z. gigas (Lindl. & Hutton) Morris has been treated as a de facto type, to the degree that none of Brongniart's four original species would now be assigned to it, instead being allocated to Otozamites and possibly elsewhere; this includes Z. bucklandii, designated as the type of Zamites by Pfeiffer in a publication dating from 1871-1875, but now (as O. bucklandii) the type of Otozamites. Technically, unless otherwise addressed, this renders Otozamites a synonym of Zamites and would mean that Z. gigas plus all the species recognisably closer to it than to Z. bucklandii would require a new genus name. Zijlstra & van Konijnenburg-van Cittert chose to attempt to circumvent this situation by proposing that Zamites should be re-defined based on designating Z. gigas as a new type to replace Z. bucklandii, a proposal that was recommended for acceptance by the Nomenclature Committee for Fossils in 2022. (en)
- Zamites Brongniart, 1828 è un genere di pianta estinto, appartenente alle bennettitali (Bennettitales). Queste piante vissero tra il Triassico e il Cretaceo inferiore (tra 225 e 120 milioni di anni fa). I loro resti sono stati ritrovati in molte zone del mondo, soprattutto in Europa. (it)
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- Zamites Brongniart, 1828 è un genere di pianta estinto, appartenente alle bennettitali (Bennettitales). Queste piante vissero tra il Triassico e il Cretaceo inferiore (tra 225 e 120 milioni di anni fa). I loro resti sono stati ritrovati in molte zone del mondo, soprattutto in Europa. (it)
- Zamites is a genus of fossil tree known from the Mesozoic of North America, Europe and India through the Eocene of North America. It was erected as a form taxon for leaves that superficially resembled the extant cycad Zamia, however it is now believed to belong to a similar but phylogenetically different group, the cyacadeoids (Bennettitales). The fronds are linear or lanceolate in shape, and pinnately compound, with pinnae with parallel veins and smooth margins, and symmetrical and constricted at the base where they are attached obliquely to the upper surface of the rachis. It has been interpreted as a Bennettitalean plant in the family Williamsoniaceae. (en)
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