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Pecopteris
Taxonomy
Pecopteris was named by Brongniart (1822). It is not extant. It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type is Filicites pennaeformis.
It was assigned to Pteridophyta by Knowlton (1919); to Filices by Ogilvie Gordon (1927); to Filicinae by Gall (1971); to Filicales by Chandra and Tewari (1991); and to Plantae by Tidwell et al. (1992).
It was assigned to Pteridophyta by Knowlton (1919); to Filices by Ogilvie Gordon (1927); to Filicinae by Gall (1971); to Filicales by Chandra and Tewari (1991); and to Plantae by Tidwell et al. (1992).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
P. acutifolia, P. ameromi, P. andressonii, P. angusta, P. arborescens, P. aspera, P. augusta, P. bucklandi, P. candolleana, P. cyathea, P. daubreei, P. densifolia, P. elliptica, P. geinitzi, P. grandifolia, P. helenaeana, P. hucheti, P. lingulata, P. miltoni, P. monyi, P. obliquenervis, P. oreopteridia, P. oreopteroides, P. plumosa, P. polymorpha, P. pseudovestita, P. serpillifolia, P. tobaensis, P. wongi
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1822 | Pecopteris Brongniart |
| 1919 | Pecopteris Knowlton |
| 1927 | Pecopteris Ogilvie Gordon |
| 1971 | Pecopteris Gall |
| 1991 | Pecopteris Chandra and Tewari |
| 1992 | Pecopteris Tidwell et al. p. 1018 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Pecopteris Brongniart 1822
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Subg. †Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825
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†Alethopteris branneri White 1913
†Alethopteris lobifolia Schimper 1828
†Alethopteris lonchiticus Schlotheim 1804
†Alethopteris roesserti Presl 1838
†Alethopteris valida Boulay 1876
†Alethopteris whitbyensis Göppert 1876
†Alethopteris whitneyi Newberry 1876
†Pecopteris affinis McClelland 1850
†Pecopteris arctica Heer 1883
†Pecopteris borealis Brongniart 1828
†Pecopteris buhsei Engelhardt 1891
†Pecopteris concinna Presl 1881
†Pecopteris cycloloba Newberry 1861
†Pecopteris filatovae Sixtel 1962
†Pecopteris geyleriana Nathorst 1890
†Pecopteris lobata Oldham 1863
†Pecopteris montanensis Fontaine 1892
†Pecopteris pennaeformis Brongniart 1822
†Pecopteris rarinervis Fontaine 1883
†Pecopteris sepulta Newberry 1882
†Pecopteris sulziana Brogniart 1828
†Pecopteris totangensis Colani 1920
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Mississippian to the top of the MN 7 + 8 or 330.30000 to 11.10000 Ma
Collections (557 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippian | France | P. esnostensis (10659) | |
| Mississippian | Canada (New Brunswick) | Alethopteris lonchitica, P. miltoni, P. plumosa (12421) | |
| Mississippian | USA (West Virginia) | Alethopteris decurrens (12985) Alethopteris parva, Alethopteris decurrens (12694) P. sp. (12983 12984) | |
| Mississippian | USA (Illinois) | Alethopteris lonchitica (13511) | |
| Mississippian | USA (Pennsylvania) | Pecopteris indet. (28090) | |
| Mississippian | Canada (Nova Scotia) | Alethopteris lonchitica, P. abbreviata (13094) | |
| Mississippian | USA (Missouri) | P. unita, P. lesquereuxii (12122) | |
| Tournaisian - Serpukhovian | USA (Illinois) | P. sp. (23914) | |
| Carboniferous - Desmoinesian | USA (Missouri) | Alethopteris davreuxi, Alethopteris decurrens, Alethopteris grandini, Alethopteris serlii, Alethopteris valida, P. clintoni, P. pseudovestita (11196) | |
| Carboniferous | USA (Kentucky) | Alethopteris lonchitica, P. plumosa (11203) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | India | Alethopteris sp. 1 (30129) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | India (Odisha) | P. lobata (224689) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous | India (Madhya Pradesh) | Alethopteris lobifolia, Alethopteris whitbyensis (224642) | |
| Tithonian | United Kingdom (England) | Pecopteris indet. (100655) | |
| Early/Lower Cretaceous | USA (Wyoming) | P. Geyleriana (34837 34839 34841) P. Geyleriana, P. borealis (34865) | |
| Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | Belgium (Hainaut) | P. conybeari, Alethopteris sp., P. sp. (22645) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian | Antarctica | P. sp. (150274) | |
| Oligocene | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | P. buhsei (141997) | |
| Neogene | China (Yunnan) | P. totangensis (224533) | |
| MN 6 - MN 7 + 8 | Switzerland (Zürich) | P. sp. (46258) | |