Full reference: B. C. Dumortier. 1829. Analyse des Familles des Plantes, avec l’indication des principaux genres qui s’y rattachent
Parent taxon: Bryophyta according to Dumortier 1829
See also Cohn 1876
Sister taxa: Anapiculatisporites, Annulispora, Bryophytina, Bryopsida, Calymperaceae, Capsulites, Cingutriletes, Coptospora, Couperisporites, Cryptothecium, Dicranales, Emphanisporites, Hepaticae, Hypnites, Interulobites, Lejeunites, Marchantiophytina, Musci, Nagpurites, Neocalliergon, Nevesisporites, Palaeohypnum, Palaeothecium, Protosphagnum, Radulites, Rogalskaisporites, Rouseisporites, Sphagnophyllites, Sporogonites, Staplinisporites, Taurocusporites, Yorekiella
Subtaxa: Distalanulisporites Sphagnites Sphagnum Sphagnumsporites
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (20 collections), India (4), United States (6: Michigan, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Portugal (8), United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Neogene of United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: Massachusetts)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of India (1), New Zealand (4), the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of China (1), New Zealand (6)
• Tertiary of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), China (1), India (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Jurassic of Canada (1: Nunavut)
Total: 73 collections including 77 occurrences