Lycopodiopsida - Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Parent taxon: Lycopodiales according to PPG. I 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Bedheimia, Cyclosporites, Dictyotosporites, Gaussia, Grammaephloios, Kaipingia, Kazakhiodendron, Lycoxylon, Perimonoletes, Retitriletes
Subtaxa: Abacodendron Carmarozonosporites Coronatispora Hamulatisporis Hamulatisporites Huperzioideae Latrobosporites Lycopodielloideae Lycopodioideae Lycopodites Lycopodiumsporites Lycopodostrobus Obtusisporis Reticulatisporites Sestrosporites
Type: Lycopodioideae
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (21 collections), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), India (5), Peru (1), United States (2: Michigan)
• Pliocene of India (1), Panama (2), United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1)
• Neogene of United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Costa Rica (1), India (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (6), Poland (1), United States (6: Idaho, Massachusetts, Nebraska)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Puerto Rico (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Chile (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (8), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), India (2), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (1), United States (42: Louisiana, Missouri)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), India (2)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Tertiary of India (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Argentina (13), Australia (37), the Bahamas (6), Belgium (1), Brazil (28), Canada (2: Alberta), Chile (1), China (1), Cote D'Ivoire (2), Egypt (2), France (1), India (6), Morocco (1), Peru (1), Romania (2), Senegal (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: Nunavut), Egypt (1), India (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Australia (1), China (5), Egypt (1), France (2), India (5), Kazakhstan (5), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (29), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Sweden (1)
• Triassic of India (2), Israel (3), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), United States (1: New Mexico)
• Permian of India (4)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: New Brunswick, Nunavut), the United Kingdom (1), United States (20: Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of Australia (2)
• Devonian of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Quebec)
Total: 356 collections including 477 occurrences