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)

• Namurian of Türkiye (1)

• Carboniferous of Canada (20: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut), France (3), Germany (3), India (1), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (24), United States (72: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia)

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

Total: 210 collections including 312 occurrences

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