Petrocardium

Petrocardium; Temporal range: Middle to Late Paleocene; ~
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Subfamily:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Petrocardium; Herrera et al. 2008
Type species
	P. wayuuorum;
Species
	P. cerrejonense; P. wayuuorum;

Petrocardium is an extinct genus of monocot plants in the family Araceae.^[1] At present it contains only two species Petrocardium cerrejonense and Petrocardium wayuuorum, the type species. The genus is solely known from the Middle to Late Paleocene (about 60 to 58 Ma), Cerrejón Formation deposits in Colombia.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b Herrera, F.A.; Jaramillo, C.A.; Dilcher, D.L.; Wing, S.L.; Gómez-N, C. (2008). "Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene neotropical rainforest in Colombia". American Journal of Botany. 95 (12): 1569–1583. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800172. PMID 21628164.
^ Cerrejón 0315 at Fossilworks.org