Abstract
Impressions and compressions of conifers from the Cupriferous Sandstones Formation of the Kazanian – Tatarian age are described. The repeated association of Sashinia female cones with Quadrocladus vegetative shoots suggests the relation of these types of organs in their lifetime. The position of Sashinia in the general evolutionary picture of female cones of early conifers allows the establishment of a new family, Sashiniaceae Gomankov, fam. nov. Sashinia antiqua Gomankov, sp. nov. and Quadrocladus antiquus Gomankov, sp. nov. are described. Besides, the vegetative shoots of Geinitzia as well as those of Steirophyllum biarmicum (Eichwald) Gomankov were found. The latter shoots despite demonstrating conifer-like morphology still belong to cordaites, while the supposed presence of cordaite fructifications in the flora of Kargala Mines is not confirmed.
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