Parent taxon: Cordaitales according to S. Chandra and R. Tewari 1991
See also Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Amyelon, Apaloxylon, Aporoxylon, Arberia, Archaeopitys, Botryoconus, Caenoxylon, Callixylon, Caracuboxylon, Cauloxylon, Cheirophyllum, Cladites, Conchophyllum, Cordaianthopsis, Cordaianthus, 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: Cordaicarpus chichariensis Cordaicarpus karharbarense Cordaicarpus ovatus Cordaicarpus zeilleri
Distribution:
• Triassic of Argentina (1 collection), India (2)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (2), Brazil (6), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Germany (3), India (12), Italy (1), Madagascar (2), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (31), South Korea (1), Zambia (1)
• Carboniferous of Brazil (1), Portugal (1), United States (6: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Utah)
Total: 79 collections including 104 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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