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Lepidopteris ✝
| Description | Lepidopteris ("pleasant fern") is a form genus for leaves of Late Permian to Late Triassic Period Pteridospermatophyta, or seed ferns, which lived from around 260 to 200 million years ago in what is now Australia, Antarctica, India, South America, South Africa, Russia and China. Nine species are currently recognized.Lepidopteris was a common and widespread seed fern, which survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event but succumbed to the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. Lepidopteris callipteroides is especially common between the first two episodes of Permian-Triassic extinction event, and L. ottonis forms a comparable acme zone immediate before the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidopteris, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Peltaspermaceae : Lepidopteris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Peltaspermophyta : Peltaspermopsida : Peltaspermales : Peltaspermaceae : Lepidopteris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Lepidopteris W.P.Schimper, 1869 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 269 - 254 Ma Permian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 201 - 174 Ma Jurassic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | S. V. Meyen. 1984. Basic features of gymnosperm systematics and phylogeny as evidenced by the fossil record. Botanical Review 50(1):1-111 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidopteris |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Lepidopteris natalensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidopteris rigida species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lepidopteris stuttgardiensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1869 | Lepidopteris Schimper |
| 1982 | Lepidopteris Holmes |
| 1984 | Lepidopteris Meyen p. 89 |
| 1995 | Lepidopteris Dobruskina |
| 2007 | Lepidopteris Vavrek et al. |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
