Lepidodendron Sternberg 1820

Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae

Synonyms: Aspidiaria Presl 1838, Sagenaria Brongniart 1822

Parent taxon: Lepidodendraceae according to D. L. Dilcher et al. 2005

See also Andrews 1970, Chandra and Tewari 1991 and Tidwell et al. 1992

Sister taxa: Aspidiopsis, Bergeria, Lepidophloios, Lepidophylloides, Lepidostrobophyllum, Lychnophorites, Phillipsia

Subtaxa: Lepidodendron aculeatum Lepidodendron batovii Lepidodendron gundensis Lepidodendron obovatum Sagenaria coelata

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Distribution:

• Triassic of United States (1: North Carolina collection)

• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), China (60), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), North Korea (4), Oman (1), South Africa (1), South Korea (4)

• Desmoinesian of United States (7: Indiana)

• Westphalian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (3: Alabama, Illinois)

• Atokan of United States (3: Indiana)

• Pennsylvanian of Canada (3: Nunavut), India (1), United States (14: Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah)

• Chesterian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)

• Osagean of United States (1: Virginia)

• Carboniferous of Canada (8: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (3), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (22), United States (41: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, West Virginia)

• Mississippian of Canada (7: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut), France (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: Illinois, Utah, West Virginia)

• Devonian of United States (6: Indiana, Kentucky, New York)

Total: 210 collections including 312 occurrences

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