Synonym: Glossopteridales Melville 1960 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Arberiopsida according to A. B. Doweld 2001
See also Meyen 1984 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Vojnovskyales
Subtaxa: Arberiaceae Bankolaea Cistella Denkania Dictyopteridium Eretmonia Ghoshialepis Gondwanolepis Indocarpus Jambadostrobus Kendostrobus Khania Lidgettonia Mahudaea Ottokaria Partha Plumsteadia Plumsteadiostrobus Schopfia Scopus Scutum Venustostrobus Vertebraria
Distribution:
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of India (1 collection)
• Jurassic of India (1), Mexico (1)
• Triassic of Antarctica (1), China (1), India (12)
• Permian to Triassic of India (4), South Africa (18)
• Permian of Antarctica (18), Argentina (11), Australia (54), Bolivia (1), Botswana (1), Brazil (27), China (4), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1), India (183), Madagascar (7), Mozambique (2), Oman (2), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (31), Tanzania (4), Turkey (2), Uganda (2), Uruguay (1), Zambia (2), Zimbabwe (6)
• Carboniferous of Brazil (1), India (3), South Africa (2)
Total: 413 collections including 1693 occurrences