Chaleuria cirrosa

Chaleuria is a genus of extinct plants, found as fossils in New Brunswick, Canada. The rocks in which it was found are of Middle Devonian age. One species has been described, Chaleuria cirrosa. It was heterosporous, i.e. the spores were of two distinct sizes. Small spores (microspores) were in the size range 30–48 μm, large spores in the range 60–156 μm. Both kinds of spore were found in the same sporangium, although one size group tended to predominate in each sporangium. The original describers "tentatively" regarded the genus as a primitive member of the progymnosperms. In 2013, Hao and Xue listed the genus as a progymnosperm.

A picture published with the record for Chaleuria cirrosa. What it shows has not been checked.

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At most 27 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Chaleuria cirrosa on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Campbellton — 48.02°N, 66.47°W

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The named rock units Chaleuria cirrosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chaleuria cirrosa and its relatives

Devonian

Where Chaleuria cirrosa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chaleuria cirrosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Chaleuria cirrosa

Credit
James St. John
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CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Chaleuria cirrosa was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.