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Chiropteris
Sign in to saveChiropteris is an extinct genus of plants that existed from the Early Permian (Sakmarian stage) to the Late Jurassic (?Oxfordian stage, maybe latter).
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 27
- With media
- 8
- Collections
- YPM, KU, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ginkgoaceae
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- taxon name
- Chiropteris
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 295000000-
- end time
- 155000000-
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Location
- References
Chiropteris is an extinct genus of plants that existed from the Early Permian (Sakmarian stage) to the Late Jurassic (?Oxfordian stage, maybe latter).
It is unknown whether it belongs in the Matoniaceae or the Dipteridaceae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chiropteris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.