Parent taxon: Polypodiopsida according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023
See also Povilauskas 2011 and Vallati et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acrocarpus, Blechnaceae, Cladophlebis, Dicksoniaceae, Equisetidae, Gleicheniaceae, Marattiidae, Marsileaceae, Osmundaceae, Polypodiaceae, Polypodiidae, Protopteris, Pseudosalvinia, Pterygopteris, Punctatosporites, Schizopteris, Tempskyaceae, Verrucosisporites
Subtaxa: Biretisporites bellus Biretisporites convexus Biretisporites crassilabratus Biretisporites deltoidus Biretisporites eneabbaensis Biretisporites potoniaei Biretisporites potoniei Biretisporites spectabilis Biretisporites triglobosus
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (2 collections)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (4)
• Eocene of Argentina (7)
• Paleocene of Argentina (7), India (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (8), Argentina (21), Australia (12), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Chile (3), China (1), Egypt (23), France (1), India (1), Israel (1), Peru (1), Portugal (5), Romania (1), South Sudan (3), Spain (1), Sudan (7), United States (1: Montana)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1), India (1)
• Jurassic of India (3), Tanzania (1)
• Triassic of India (1)
Total: 122 collections including 143 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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