Selaginella Beauvois 1804 (spikemoss)

Lycopodiopsida - Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae

Parent taxon: Selaginellaceae according to PPG. I 2016

See also Chandler 1961, Chandra and Tewari 1991, Chauhan 1991, Huang et al. 2023, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Sniderman 2011 and Srivastava 1991

Sister taxa: Antulsporites, Heliosporites, Herkosporites, Neoraistrickia, Patellasporites, Perotrilites

Subtaxa: Selaginella berthoudii Selaginella collieri Selaginella falcata Selaginella laciniata Selaginella marylandica Selaginella monstrosa Selaginella perinata

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Type: Selaginella perinata

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (12 collections), the Bahamas (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Michigan, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Germany (1), Panama (1), Portugal (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (1)

• Neogene of United States (1: Massachusetts)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Costa Rica (1), Germany (13), Panama (13), the Russian Federation (7), Switzerland (3), United States (1: Massachusetts)

• Oligocene of Germany (17), Puerto Rico (3)

• Eocene of Myanmar (28), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Paleogene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), United States (7: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota)

• Tertiary of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Cretaceous of China (1), Germany (1), Mexico (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (3: Colorado, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Australia (1), India (1)

• Triassic to Jurassic of Sweden (1)

• Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Arizona)

• Carboniferous of Belgium (1)

Total: 143 collections including 159 occurrences

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