Cyclopteris Explained

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

• Cyclopteris elegans Lesquereux, 1854^[1] - from the Carboniferous of Pennsylvania, USA
• Cyclopteris elegans Unger, 1858^[2]
• Cyclopteris elegans Achepohl, 1883^[3] - from Westphalia, Germany^[4]

Notes and References

1. New species of fossil plants. Lesquereux, 1854, Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist. VI, 4, page 416
2. Unger, 1858, Denkschr. K. Akad. d. Wiss., Wien, Math. natw. CI, XI, page 161, tab. 6, fig. 1
3. 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
4. Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 39. W. Jongmans