06976 - Top Beautiful 2.00 Inch Alethopteris sp Carboniferous Fossil Fern

† Alethopteris, Sternberg 1825
Alethopteridae - Alethopteridae

   
PaleoDB taxon number: 125733
Parent taxon: Alethopteridae according to D. L. Dilcher et al. 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Alethopteris roesserti, Alethopteris valida, Alethopteris whitneyi

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Environments: (59 collections), terrestrial (10), deltaic (4), fluvial (2), lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal (2), delta plain (2), mire/swamp (2), "floodplain" (1), lacustrine - small (1), estuary/bay (1), lagoonal (1), marine (1), lacustrine (1), fluvial-lacustrine (1), crevasse splay (1), paralic (1)
Age range: 318.1 to 122.46 Ma
Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection)

• Jurassic of India (1), Mexico (1)

• Triassic of Australia (1)

• Permian of China (35), France (1), Germany (10), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (2), North Korea (1), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (1), United States (3: Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia)

• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Indiana, Missouri)

• Atokan of United States (2: Indiana)

• Pennsylvanian of Portugal (1), United States (17: Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania)

• Westphalian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), United States (2: Alabama, Illinois)

• Carboniferous of Canada (11: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island), Germany (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6), Turkey (2), United States (25: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)

• Mississippian of Canada (2: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), United States (3: Illinois, West Virginia)

Source: Alethopteris: Fossilworks - Paleobiology Database