Parent taxon: Bryopsida according to Pflug 1953
See also Jarzen 1982
Sister taxa: Andreaeidae, Bartramiaceae, Bryokhutuliinia, Buxbaumiidae, Hypnales, Muscites, Palaeodichelyma, Polytrichidae, Sphagnidae, Tetraphidae, Tricostium
Subtaxa: Stereisporites antiquasporites Stereisporites assamensis Stereisporites grandis Stereisporites pocockii Stereisporites psilatus Stereisporites regium Stereisporites stereoides Stereisporites steroides Stereisporites viriosus
Type: Stereisporites steroides
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (12), Australia (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (11), Australia (5), Canada (7: Manitoba), India (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (18), Argentina (7), Australia (36), the Bahamas (5), Brazil (1), Canada (5: Alberta), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Alaska, North Dakota)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of India (2)
• Jurassic of India (1)
• Triassic of Antarctica (1), Madagascar (1)
Total: 132 collections including 177 occurrences
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