Family Cyatheaceae Kaulfuss 1827 (scaly tree fern)

Polypodiopsida - Cyatheales - Polypodiidae

Parent taxon: Cyatheales according to PPG. I 2016

See also Bera et al. 2014, Carpenter 1991, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919, MacGinitie 1941 and Smith et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Hagiophyton, Loxsomataceae, Metaxyaceae, Plagiogyriaceae, Thyrsopteridaceae, Yavanna

Subtaxa: Alsophila Alsophilidites Alsophilites Alsophilocaulis Cibotiocaulis Cibotium Conantiopteris Coniopteris Cyathea Cyatheites Cyatheopteris Cyathocaulis Cyathodendron Cyathoforma Cyathoides Cyathorachis Dendropteridium Dicksoniopsis Fasciostelopteris Haydenia Hemitelites Kulyisporites Protocyathea Pteridocaulis Tympanophora Yezopteris

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (45 collections), India (6), Panama (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1)

• Pliocene of Panama (5), Portugal (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1)

• Miocene of Brazil (1), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (13)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Puerto Rico (8)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (31: California, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), India (1)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Argentina (1), Australia (4), Canada (11: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), India (6), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (2), the Russian Federation (18), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (15: Alaska, California, Montana, Utah)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (5: British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), India (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (8)

• Jurassic of Afghanistan (3), Antarctica (2), Argentina (4), Australia (4), Belarus (4), China (143), France (1), Georgia (12), India (15), Iran (2), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (19), Kyrgyzstan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (4), Mongolia (5), New Zealand (6), Poland (1), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (178), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Sri Lanka (1), Tajikistan (26), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (20), United States (5: Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (12)

• Triassic to Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1)

• Triassic of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (1), China (2), Germany (2), Lesotho (1), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (3), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia)

• Permian of France (3), Portugal (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Kansas, Texas)

• Carboniferous of Canada (2: New Brunswick), Germany (1), Spain (2), United States (5: Alaska, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)

Total: 745 collections including 1369 occurrences

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