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:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection)
• Jurassic of India (1), Italy (1)
• Triassic of Germany (1), India (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Permian of Morocco (1), United States (1: Arizona)
• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Pennsylvanian of Portugal (1), United States (2: Kansas, New Mexico)
• Westphalian of United States (2: Alabama, Pennsylvania)
• Carboniferous of Canada (5: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (1), Spain (1), United States (11: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)
• Mississippian of Canada (2: New Brunswick), United States (1: Utah)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec)
Total: 37 collections including 49 occurrences
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