Family Marattiaceae Berchtold and Presl (fern)

Polypodiopsida - Marattiales - Marattiidae

Parent taxon: Marattiales according to PPG. I 2016

See also Gardner and Ettingshausen 1880, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000

Sister taxa: Asansolia, Asterotheca, Auriculopora, Eupsaronius, Grandeurya, Grandeuryella, Hydropteraceae, Ptychocarpus

Subtaxa: Acitheca Amadocopteris Angiopteridium Angiopteris Asterocarpus Caulopteris Cyclotheca Danaeopsis Eoangiopteris Goolandia Macrotaenia Marattia Marattiopsis Marattiotheca Megaphyton Mertensides Mesozoisynangia Octotheca Pronephrium Psaroniocaulon Psaronites Psaronius Ptisana Rajahia Renaultia Rhinipteris Scolecopteris Tubiculites Winchellina Zeilleria

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (5 collections)

• Miocene of Switzerland (2)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Germany (4)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), India (1), United States (1: Minnesota)

• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Azerbaijan (1), China (6), Egypt (1), Georgia (1), India (11), Iran (1), Japan (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (29), Tajikistan (15), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (17), Uzbekistan (3)

• Triassic to Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), France (1), Mexico (1), Sweden (1)

• Triassic of Australia (2), Austria (9), China (62), France (3), Germany (81), India (1), Iran (1), Italy (5), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (15), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (2), Switzerland (13), Tajikistan (2), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia)

• Permian of China (9), Germany (2), India (5), Madagascar (3), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Texas)

• Namurian of Spain (1)

• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (20: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec), Norway (1), United States (3: Michigan, New York, Ohio)

Total: 385 collections including 476 occurrences

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