Parent taxon: Bryopsida according to Pflug 1953
See also Barreda et al. 2012, Jarzen 1982 and Stiles et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Andreaeidae, Bartramiaceae, Bryokhutuliinia, Buxbaumiidae, Hypnales, Muscites, Palaeodichelyma, Polytrichidae, Rhizinigerites, Sphagnidae, Tetraphidae, Tricostium
Subtaxa: Stereisporites antiquasporites Stereisporites assamensis Stereisporites grandis Stereisporites pocockii Stereisporites psilatus Stereisporites regium Stereisporites stereoides Stereisporites steroides Stereisporites viriosus
Type: Stereisporites steroides
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (2), Southern Ocean (10), United States (9: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Argentina (25), Australia (5), Canada (7: Manitoba), India (2), United States (68: Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (19), Argentina (18), Australia (37), Brazil (1), Canada (5: Alberta), North Atlantic (5), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (20: Alaska, North Dakota)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of India (2)
• Jurassic of India (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Triassic of Antarctica (1), Madagascar (1)
Total: 256 collections including 301 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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