Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetidae
Parent taxon: Calamitaceae according to H. N. Andrews 1970
Sister taxa: Arthrodendron, Arthropityostachys, Arthropitys, Asterophyllites, Asterophyllostachys, Asthenomyelon, Calamitea, Calamites, Calamitina, Calamitomyelon, Calamocarpon, Calamocladus, Calamodendrea, Calamodendrofloyos, Calamodendron, Calamodendrophyllum, Calamodendroxylon, Calamophloios, Calamostachys, Coleophyllites, Haplocalamus, Metacalamostachys, Myelocalamites, Nematophyllites, Neocalamites, Protocalamites, Pseudobornia, Zimmermannioxylon
Subtaxa: Pinnularia capillacea
Type: Pinnularia capillacea
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1 collection)
• Permian of Brazil (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (4: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), Ukraine (1), United States (24: Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma)
• Devonian of Belgium (4)
Total: 36 collections including 38 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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