Synonym: Otopteris Lindley and Hutton 1834
Parent taxon: Bennettitales according to T. Kimura and B.-K. Kim 1988
See also Andrews 1970, Chandra and Tewari 1991, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Watson and Sincock 1992
Sister taxa: Amarjolia, Anomozamites, Bennetticarpus, Bennettistemon, Bennettitaceae, Bennettitaepollenites, Bennettiteaepollenites, Bennettitolepis, Bysmatospermum, Coreanophyllum, Cycadeospermum, Cycadolepis, Dictyozamites, Guptioxylon, Leguminanthus, Lerouxia, Moltenia, Monanthesia, Nilssoniopteris, Ontheanthus, Ontheostrobus, Palaeanthus, Piroconites, Pseudocycas, Pterophyllum, Ptilophyllum, Purioxylon, Rajmahalia, Sahnioxylon, Sturiella, Tyrmia, Tysonia, Vardekloeftia, Weltrichia, Wielandiella, Williamsonia, Williamsoniaceae, Williamsonianthus, Williamsoniella, Wonnacottia, Zamites
Subtaxa: Otozamites acutifolius Otozamites angustatus Otozamites archangelskyi Otozamites bengalensis Otozamites bornholmensis Otozamites brevifolius Otozamites carolinensis Otozamites exhislopi Otozamites giganteus Otozamites gondwanensis Otozamites hislopii Otozamites imbricatus Otozamites kachchhensis Otozamites latior Otozamites macombii Otozamites micrauritus Otozamites obtusus Otozamites oregonensis Otozamites parallelus Otozamites patagonicus Otozamites pterophylloides Otozamites vemavaramensis Otozamites walkamotaensis
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (5), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (1), Ecuador (2), India (5), Portugal (1), South Africa (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), India (3), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Peru (2)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (6), Argentina (17), Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), Belarus (2), Bulgaria (1), China (45), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (7), Georgia (5), India (12), Iran (2), Israel (1), Italy (2), Japan (8), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (1), Mexico (9), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (1), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (9), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (26), United States (2: Alaska, Colorado), Uzbekistan (2), Venezuela (1)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Mexico (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1), Armenia (1), China (14), France (1), Germany (1), Iran (2), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Malaysia (1), South Korea (3), Tajikistan (7), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: New Mexico, North Carolina)
Total: 255 collections including 425 occurrences
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