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Cyathidites
Taxonomy
Cyathidites was named by Couper (1953). It is considered to be a form taxon.
It was assigned to Pteridopsida by Couper (1953); to Filicales by Jarzen (1982); to Cyatheaceae by Vallati et al. (2016); and to Filicopsida by Vallati et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Pteridopsida by Couper (1953); to Filicales by Jarzen (1982); to Cyatheaceae by Vallati et al. (2016); and to Filicopsida by Vallati et al. (2020).
Species
C. asper, C. australis, C. concavus, C. congoensis, C. crassiangulatus, C. cutchensis, C. flavatus, C. ghuneriensis, C. grandis, C. harbourensis, C. jurassicus, C. kashmirensis, C. medicus, C. mesozoicus, C. minor (syn. Leiotriletes garoensis), C. paleospora, C. patagonicus, C. pseudopunctatus, C. pulchellus, C. punctatus, C. rafaeli, C. rajmahalensis, C. trilobatus
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Cyathidites Couper |
| 1982 | Cyathidites Jarzen p. 15 |
| 2016 | Cyathidites Vallati et al. p. 498 |
| 2020 | Cyathidites Vallati et al. p. 5 |
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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. †Cyathidites Couper 1953
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†Cyathidites asper Dettmann 1963
†Cyathidites australis Couper 1953
†Cyathidites concavus Dettmann 1963
†Cyathidites congoensis Sah 1967
†Cyathidites crassiangulatus Balme 1957
†Cyathidites cutchensis Singh et al. 1964
†Cyathidites flavatus Venkatachala et al. 1968
†Cyathidites ghuneriensis Singh et al. 1964
†Cyathidites grandis Singh et al. 1964
†Cyathidites harbourensis Mathur and Chopra 1982
†Cyathidites jurassicus Kar and Sah 1970
†Cyathidites kashmirensis Thiergart and Frantz 1962
†Cyathidites medicus Sah and Jain 1965
†Cyathidites mesozoicus Potonié 1956
†Cyathidites paleospora Alley and Broadbridge 1992
†Cyathidites patagonicus Archangelsky 1972
†Cyathidites pseudopunctatus Singh et al. 1964
†Cyathidites pulchellus Cao 1994
†Cyathidites punctatus Delcourt et al. 1963
†Cyathidites rafaeli Burger 1980
†Cyathidites rajmahalensis Sah and Jain 1965
†Cyathidites trilobatus Sah and Jain 1965
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spore diameter | 1 | 0.029 |
No ecological data are available
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Jurassic to the top of the Quaternary or 201.40000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (474 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Jurassic | India (Rajasthan) | C. australis (226933) C. minor, C. australis (224684) | |
| Bathonian | Morocco (Figuig) | C. sp. (176120) | |
| Middle Callovian - Late/Upper Callovian | France (Franche-Comté) | C. minor (142143) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | India (Andhra Pradesh) | C. sp., C. minor, C. punctatus, C. asper, C. cutchensis, C. jurassicus, C. pseudopunctatus, C. rajmahalensis, C. trilobatus (224604) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | India (Gujarat) | C. australis, C. medicus, C. trilobatus (227058) C. minor, C. australis, C. asper, C. concavus, C. flavatus, C. rajmahalensis (224785) C. minor, C. australis, C. asper, C. concavus, C. rajmahalensis (227049) C. minor, C. australis, C. punctatus, C. asper, C. concavus, C. flavatus, C. medicus (227057) C. minor, C. australis, C. punctatus, C. asper, C. flavatus, C. medicus, C. rajmahalensis (225331) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | India (Jharkhand) | C. medicus, C. rajmahalensis, C. trilobatus (224607) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous | Canada (Nunavut) | C. sp. (102063) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous | India (Madhya Pradesh) | C. sp., C. australis (224642) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous | India (Gujarat) | C. minor (224625) | |
| Neocomian | Egypt (Sinai) | C. minor, C. australis (140636) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (Tasmania) | C. porospora, C. subtilis, C. minor, C. paleospora (166703) C. splendens, C. minor, C. paleospora (167314) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Middle Miocene | Argentina (Tierra del Fuego) | C. minor (169381) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Miocene | Argentina | C. minor, C. paleospora, C. patagonicus (169468) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Argentina (Tierra del Fuego) | C. minor (166708) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (New south wales) | C. australis (168989 168993 168994 168995 168997 168998 168999 169001 169003 169004) C. australis, C. paleospora (169000 169005) C. subtilis, C. australis (168996) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (New South Wales) | C. spp., C. palaeospora, C. splendens (224044) | |
| Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina (Chubut) | C. spp. (144210) | |
| Middle Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | South Atlantic (Falkland Islands) | C. australis (169355) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina (Catamarca) | C. minor, C. congoensis (137142) | |
| Quaternary | India (West Bengal) | C. harbourensis (228850) | |