Lycopodiopsida - Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Parent taxon: Selaginellaceae according to R. A. Couper 1953
See also Povilauskas et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Antulsporites, Heliosporites, Herkosporites, Neoraistrickia, Patellasporites, Selaginella
Subtaxa: Perotrilites caperatus Perotrilites granulatus Perotrilites hyaloides Perotrilites jubatus Perotrilites laceratus Perotrilites linearis Perotrilites majus Perotrilites minor Perotrilites oepikii Perotrilites otagoensis Perotrilites pannuceus Perotrilites papillatus Perotrilites perinatus Perotrilites perinopustulosus Perotrilites pseudoreticulatus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (3)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Argentina (3), Australia (15), Brazil (35), Cote D'Ivoire (3), Egypt (1), Israel (1), Libya (1), Senegal (1), United States (1: Iowa)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Jurassic of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Triassic of Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Givetian of the United Kingdom (2)
• Devonian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the United Kingdom (10), United States (1: New York)
Total: 90 collections including 122 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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