Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Schizaeales according to PPG. I 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chandra and Tewari 1991, Cladera et al. 2007, Gardner and Ettingshausen 1880, Hickey 1977, Iglesias 2016, Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919, Lapasha and Miller 1985, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Polevova and Avramenko 2013
Sister taxa: Anemiaceae, Appendicisporites, Convolutispora, Lygodiaceae, Nodosisporites, Plicatella, Ruffordiaspora, Schizeaceae
Subtaxa: Acrostichopteris Anemieae Baieropsis Cicatricosisporites Distaltriangulisporites Klukisporites Lygodieae Lygodiumsporites Microfoveolatosporites Mintopteris Mohria Mohriopsis Neyvelia Norimbergia Pastoria Pelletieria Pelletixia Protornithopteris Ruffordia Schizaea Schizaeangium Schizaeoisporites Schizaeopsis Schizaeopteris Senftenbergia Undulatisporites Waldenburgia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (10 collections), India (1)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), India (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Massachusetts)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Colombia (20), Cuba (1), Germany (1), India (1), Myanmar (24), United States (55: Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (9), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (1), Colombia (1), India (2), United States (9: Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous to Neogene of China (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (13), Argentina (48), Australia (37), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (160), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), China (3), Colombia (31), Cote D'Ivoire (3), Egypt (74), France (1), Germany (1), Ghana (8), India (8), Israel (15), Jordan (5), Lebanon (1), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Nigeria (3), North Atlantic (6), Peru (4), Portugal (10), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (4), Senegal (4), South Korea (1), South Sudan (6), Spain (3), Sudan (46), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Kansas, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1), India (1), Peru (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), China (16), Egypt (5), India (7), Japan (3), Madagascar (1), Montenegro (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of India (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Namurian of United States (1: Illinois)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: New Brunswick), United States (3: Illinois, Indiana)
Total: 744 collections including 1215 occurrences