Polypodiopsida - Filicales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Filicales according to R. Kräusel 1939
See also Cook and Ross 1996, Knowlton 1919 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Aspidistes, Botrychiopsis, Cuticulatopteris, Damudopteris, Damudosorus, Dichopteris, Dichotomopteris, Dicksoniaceae, Dictyostelopteris, Dizeugotheca, Eleganopteris, Filicoamyelon, Gondwanidium, Hymenophyllites, Hyrcanopteris, Leleopteris, Lontzenia, Neomariopteris, Newberryana, Oleandridium, Palmatopteris, Pantea, Pantopteris, Paradoxopteris, Parsorophyllum, Prakashites, Pterisorus, Raphaelia, Rhizomopteris, Saaria, Saarotheca, Santhalea, Sarcopteris, Scaphidopteris, Sermaya, Solenostelopteris, Stormbergia, Stramineopteris, Tigrisporites, Triphyllopteris, Trithecopteris, Weichseliaceae
Subtaxa: Weichselia ludovicae Weichselia reticulata
Type: Weichselia ludovicae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Germany (1), India (2), Israel (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (5: Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1), India (1), Peru (2)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Egypt (1), Georgia (1)
• Triassic of Italy (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
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