Full reference: A. T. Brongniart. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles.
Parent taxon: Neuropteridae according to D. L. Dilcher et al. 2005
See also Chandra and Tewari 1991 and Jennings 1980
Sister taxa: Casea, Daubreeia, Fryopsis, Linopteris, Nephropteris, Neuralethopteris, Neurocardiopteris, Neurodontopteris, Neurogangamopteris, Neuropterocarpus, Neurospermum, Nevrospermum, Otopteris, Padgettia, Pseudocyclopteris
Subtaxa: Cyclopteris lobata Cyclopteris moquensis Cyclopteris reniformis Euephemerites primordialis
Type: Cyclopteris reniformis
Ecology: stationary C3 autotroph
Distribution:
• Jurassic of India (1 collection), Italy (1)
• Triassic of Germany (1), India (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Permian of Morocco (1), United States (1: Arizona)
• Carboniferous of Canada (7: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (17: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec)
Total: 36 collections including 48 occurrences
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