Parent taxon: Lycophyta according to E. Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Acanthotriletes, Annalepis, Bacutriletes, Carinostrobus, Drepanophycales, Erlansonisporites, Ferganodendron, Guycampbellia, Horstisporites, Hughesisporites, Lepidocarpaceae, Pleuromeiales, Pleuromeiopsis, Protolepidodendrales, Protolepidodendron, Pseudolepidodendropsis, Sigillariaceae, Wexfordia
Subtaxa: Diaphorodendraceae Lepidodendraceae Lycopogenia
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), China (65), Germany (4), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), North Korea (4), Oman (1), South Africa (1), South Korea (4), United States (2: Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (16: Indiana)
• Atokan of United States (3: Indiana)
• Pennsylvanian of Belize (1), Canada (6: Nunavut), India (1), United States (15: Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah)
• Westphalian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (3: Alabama, Illinois)
• Chesterian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Osagean of United States (1: Virginia)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (4), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), Turkey (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (25), United States (53: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Mississippian of Canada (9: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut), France (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: Illinois, Utah, West Virginia)
• Devonian of Norway (3), United States (6: Indiana, Kentucky, New York)
Total: 260 collections including 488 occurrences