Parent taxon: Lycophyta according to Potonié and Kremp 1954
See also Jarzen 1982
Sister taxa: Annalepis, Bacutriletes, Carinostrobus, Drepanophycales, Erlansonisporites, Ferganodendron, Guycampbellia, Horstisporites, Hughesisporites, Lepidocarpaceae, Lepidodendrales, Pleuromeiales, Pleuromeiopsis, Protolepidodendrales, Protolepidodendron, Pseudolepidodendropsis, Sigillariaceae, Wexfordia
Subtaxa: Acanthotriletes baskoensis Acanthotriletes ciliatus Acanthotriletes filiformis Acanthotriletes jhariensis Acanthotriletes offshorensis Acanthotriletes tereteangulatus Acanthotriletes varispinosus
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (5: Alberta collections), India (3), South Sudan (1)
• Jurassic of India (1)
• Triassic of Antarctica (1), India (1), Norway (6)
• Rotliegendes of Norway (2)
• Permian of Antarctica (1), the Czech Republic (1), India (9), Israel (1), Italy (2), Norway (2), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Carboniferous of Peru (1), United States (9: Illinois, New Mexico, Ohio)
• Givetian of the United Kingdom (3)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Nunavut), Colombia (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Maryland), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 59 collections including 68 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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