Cyclopteris

Cyclopteris
Temporal range: 360.7–0.012 Ma
Cyclopteris rhomboidea - Exhibit in the Arppeanum, Helsinki, Finland.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: †Pteridospermatophyta
Order: †Medullosales
Family: †Cyclopteridaceae
Genus: †Cyclopteris
Species
  • Cyclopteris rhomboidea
    and see text

Cyclopteris is an extinct genus of seed ferns in the extinct family †Cyclopteridaceae. Species are from the Carboniferous.

  • Cyclopteris elegans Lesquereux, 1854[2] - from the Carboniferous of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Cyclopteris elegans Unger, 1858[3]
  • Cyclopteris elegans Achepohl, 1883[4] - from Westphalia, Germany[5]

References

  1. ↑ Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles. A Brongniart, 1828
  2. ↑ New species of fossil plants. Lesquereux, 1854, Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist. VI, 4, page 416
  3. ↑ Unger, 1858, Denkschr. K. Akad. d. Wiss., Wien, Math. natw. CI, XI, page 161, tab. 6, fig. 1
  4. ↑ Das Niederrheinisch-Westfälische Steinkohlengebirge: Atlas der fossilen Fauna und Flora in 42 Blättern, nach Originalen photographirt und 4 lithographirte Blätter, … L Achepohl, 1883, page 116, tab. 35, fig. 5
  5. ↑ Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 39. W. Jongmans


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