Cyclopteris

No picture of Cyclopteris was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cyclopteris itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyclopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeuropteridaePBDB
Diet
C3 autotrophPBDB, for Neuropteridae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Neuropteridae
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Neuropteridae

Time the record covers

At least 197 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 48 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 36 of 48 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 48 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 48 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 48 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 48 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 48 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrences387–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences371–362 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences362–354 Mya — about 3 occurrences354–346 Mya — about 5 occurrences346–337 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–329 Mya — about 3 occurrences329–321 Mya — about 3 occurrences321–312 Mya — about 7 occurrences312–304 Mya — about 7 occurrences304–296 Mya — about 6 occurrences296–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences196–188 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences188–180 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya161.5 Mya387 Mya138 Mya

48 occurrences of Cyclopteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

48 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

18 formations

Mahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WSupai — 34.20°N, 111.00°WLydiennes — 43.54°N, 3.37°EBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WLancaster — 45.24°N, 66.08°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WShelburn — 39.28°N, 87.53°WLower Alum Shale — 50.00°N, 12.00°EBoggy — 35.50°N, 95.49°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WManning Canyon Shale — 40.28°N, 112.15°WSerie de Bou Achouch — 33.60°N, 5.80°WFountain — 38.40°N, 105.22°WMadera — 35.00°N, 106.00°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°EMaitur — 23.71°N, 86.93°E

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The named rock units Cyclopteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclopteris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyclopteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Cyclopteris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

31 references

Each of the 48 occurrences 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. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
MGRRE
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No picture of Cyclopteris was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cyclopteris itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyclopteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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. Brongniart 1828