Parent taxon: Cordaitales according to H. N. Andrews 1970
Sister taxa: Amyelon, Apaloxylon, Aporoxylon, Arberia, Archaeopitys, Botryoconus, Caenoxylon, Callixylon, Caracuboxylon, Cauloxylon, Cheirophyllum, Cladites, Conchophyllum, Cordaianthopsis, Cordaicarpus, Cordaicladus, Cordaifloyos, Cordaiopsis, Cordaiphloeum, Cordaispermum, Cordaistrobus, Cormocordaites, Dictyocordaites, Dolianitia, Dorycordaites, Eristophyton, Hypsilocarpus, Lepidoxylon, Medullopitys, Mesoxyloides, Mesoxylon, Mesoxylopsis, Metacordaites, Ormoxylon, Pelourdea, Pericordaites, Pinuxylon, Pitus, Pityeae, Poacordaixylon, Poroxylon, Premnoxylon, Pycnophyllites, Pycnoxylon, Radiculites, Rhiptozamites, Rhizocordaites, Samarospadix, Schutzia, Scutocordaites, Squamophyllum, Taeniophyllum, Titanophyllum, Tithymalites, Xylophyllum
Subtaxa: Cordaianthus gemmifer
Type: Cordaianthus gemmifer
Distribution:
• Permian of China (4 collections), North Korea (1), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1)
• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Westphalian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia)
• Pennsylvanian of United States (3: Illinois, Kansas, Michigan)
• Carboniferous of Canada (3: New Brunswick), United States (4: Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio)
• Mississippian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), United States (2: Missouri, Utah)
Total: 23 collections including 26 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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