Full reference: N. A. Jud. 2011. Unpublished taxonomic opinions.
Parent taxon: Polypodiopsida according to N. A. Jud 2011
Sister taxa: Achradosporis, Apiculatasporites, Apiculatisporites, Baculatisporites, Cicatricososporites, Cingulatisporites, Clavatisporites, Clavatriletes, Cyathidites, Cyclosorus, Deltoidospora, Echinatisporis, Foveasporis, Granulatisporites, Grapnelispora, Interlobulites, Ischyosporites, Kirchheimerisporites, Laevigatosporites, Leiotriletes, Marattisporites, Matonisporites, Monolites, Osmundacidites, Peromonolites, Pteridacidites, Scabramonoletes, Todisporites, Triletes, Tuberculatosporites, Waltzispora, Lygodioisporites, Reticuloidosporites, Monachosoraceae, Hymenophyllopsidaceae, Nephrolepidaceae, Davalliaceae, Thelypteridaceae, Hymenophyllaceae, Marsileales, Polypodiaceae, Ophioglossidae, Marattiidae, Trilites, Oleandraceae, Capsispora, Lophosoriaceae, Psilotidae, Grammitidaceae, Plagiogyriaceae, Cheiropleuriaceae, Crassoretitriletes, Polypodiaceoisporites, Lametatriletes, Magnastriatites, Lygodiidites, Ophioglossaceae, Kyrtomisporis, Marattiaceae, Lomariopsidaceae, Vittariaceae, Metaxyaceae, Concavissimisporites, Striatella, Osmundales, Onychiopsis, Salviniales, Schizaeales, Cladophlebis, Cyatheales, Polypodiidae, Tempskyaceae, Polypodiales
Subtaxa: Dipteridaceae Gleicheniaceae Matoniaceae
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (29 collections)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (9), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Cuba (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (5), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Chile (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (4), Australia (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (42: Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (25), Australia (11), China (1), United States (12: Montana, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of Chile (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), New Zealand (8)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (48), Argentina (31), Australia (41), the Bahamas (6), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (6), Colombia (10), Egypt (44), France (2), Germany (1), Israel (3), Jordan (5), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Nigeria (2), Peru (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), Sudan (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (28: Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (2: Nunavut), Egypt (2), India (1), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Antarctica (2), Argentina (4), Australia (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (18), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (1), India (4), Israel (4), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (4), Lithuania (1), New Zealand (4), Poland (3), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (47), Tajikistan (13), the United Kingdom (12), United States (1: Montana), Uzbekistan (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1)
• Triassic of Antarctica (2), Australia (1), China (7), Japan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (1), Norway (9), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2), United States (2: New Mexico, Virginia)
• Permian of Norway (3)
Total: 601 collections including 886 occurrences