Parent taxon: Bryophyta according to R. K. Jain and T. Delevoryas 1967
See also Knowlton 1919, Lapasha and Miller 1985 and McIver and Basinger 1993
Sister taxa: Anapiculatisporites, Annulispora, Bryophytina, Bryopsida, Calymperaceae, Capsulites, Cingutriletes, Coptospora, Couperisporites, Cryptothecium, Dicranales, Emphanisporites, Hypnites, Interulobites, Lejeunites, Marchantiophytina, Musci, Nagpurites, Neocalliergon, Nevesisporites, Palaeohypnum, Palaeothecium, Protosphagnum, Radulites, Rogalskaisporites, Rouseisporites, Sphagnaceae, Sphagnophyllites, Sporogonites, Staplinisporites, Taurocusporites, Yorekiella
Subtaxa: Aporothallus Hepaticites Marchantiales Striatothallus Thallites Trambauathallites Zlivisporis
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Portugal (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Portugal (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of China (1)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Colombia (2), United States (9: Montana, North Dakota)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (5: Alberta, British Columbia), Colombia (3), Egypt (4), India (3), Japan (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (1), South Sudan (5), Spain (1), United States (20: Alaska, Montana, North Dakota)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1)
• Jurassic of Australia (1), China (6), Egypt (1), Germany (1), India (3), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (22), Tajikistan (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Triassic of Argentina (1), China (3), India (1), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Lesotho (1), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (18), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of Brazil (3), China (1), India (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: Illinois)
• Devonian of United States (1: New York)
• Silurian of China (1)
Total: 162 collections including 186 occurrences