Synonym: Pychnophyllum Brongniart 1849 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Cordaitanthales according to S. V. Meyen 1984
See also Andrews 1970, Chandra and Tewari 1991, Dilcher et al. 2005 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Cordaitanthaceae, Nephropsis
Subtaxa: Cordaites borassifolia Cordaites hislopi Cordaites spatulata
Type: Flabellaria borassifolia
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Mexico (3 collections)
• Triassic of France (2), Germany (1), India (2)
• Permian of Argentina (8), Australia (9), Brazil (5), Canada (1: Prince Edward Island), Chile (1), China (66), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Germany (2), Greenland (1), India (61), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (2), Mexico (1), Mongolia (27), Morocco (3), North Korea (3), Pakistan (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (67), Saudi Arabia (3), South Africa (6), South Korea (5), Spain (2), Thailand (2), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Texas), Venezuela (1), Zimbabwe (2)
• Rotliegendes of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Pennsylvanian of Belize (2), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (12: Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania)
• Westphalian of United States (2: Alabama, Illinois)
• Atokan of United States (1: Indiana)
• Namurian of Germany (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1), Morocco (1), Spain (1)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (7: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (3), India (2), the Netherlands (3), Portugal (1), Spain (4), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (21: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia)
• Mississippian of Canada (3: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), United States (6: Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Utah, West Virginia)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec)
Total: 395 collections including 615 occurrences
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