Pecopteris (Alethopteris) Sternberg 1825

Pteropsida - Filicinae

Alternative spelling: Alethopteris

Parent taxon: Pecopteris according to Oldham and Morris 1862

See also Chandra and Tewari 1991, Dilcher et al. 2005 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976

Sister taxa: Pecopteris affinis, Pecopteris arctica, Pecopteris borealis, Pecopteris buhsei, Pecopteris concinna, Pecopteris cycloloba, Pecopteris filatovae, Pecopteris geyleriana, Pecopteris lobata, Pecopteris montanensis, Pecopteris pennaeformis, Pecopteris rarinervis, Pecopteris sepulta, Pecopteris sulziana, Pecopteris totangensis

Subtaxa: Alethopteris branneri Alethopteris lobifolia Alethopteris lonchiticus Alethopteris roesserti Alethopteris valida Alethopteris whitbyensis Alethopteris whitneyi

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Type: Filicites lonchiticus

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of India (1)

• Jurassic of India (4), Mexico (1)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Mexico (11)

• Permian of China (36), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (10), India (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (2), North Korea (1), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (1), United States (2: Oklahoma, Texas)

• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Indiana)

• Atokan of United States (2: Indiana)

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

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

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

• Carboniferous of Canada (11: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island), Germany (1), India (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (28: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)

Total: 166 collections including 233 occurrences

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