Polypodiopsida - Filicales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Filicales according to M. Yuan et al. 2024
See also I 2016, Jud 2011, Lapasha and Miller 1985, Perez Loinaze et al. 2023 and Vallati et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Aspidistes, Botrychiopsis, Cuticulatopteris, Damudopteris, Damudosorus, Dichopteris, Dichotomopteris, Dictyostelopteris, Dizeugotheca, Eleganopteris, Filicoamyelon, Gondwanidium, Hymenophyllites, Hyrcanopteris, Leleopteris, Lontzenia, Neomariopteris, Newberryana, Oleandridium, Palmatopteris, Pantea, Pantopteris, Paradoxopteris, Parsorophyllum, Prakashites, Pterisorus, Raphaelia, Rhizomopteris, Saaria, Saarotheca, Santhalea, Sarcopteris, Scaphidopteris, Sermaya, Solenostelopteris, Stormbergia, Stramineopteris, Tigrisporites, Triphyllopteris, Trithecopteris, Weichselia, Weichseliaceae
Subtaxa: Acanthopteris Calochlaena Cibotiidites Cyatheacidites Dicksonia Dicksoniaceaesporites Kylikipteris Lophosoria Tchaunia Thyrsopterideae Tinpaharia Trilites
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (31 collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Costa Rica (1), India (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (9), Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Chile (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (13), Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (35), Australia (7)
• Tertiary of India (1)
• Paleogene of Chile (1), India (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1), New Zealand (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (44), Argentina (73), Australia (5), Brazil (1), Chile (2), China (1), Cote D'Ivoire (3), Egypt (1), India (4), Nigeria (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (18), Senegal (4), United States (12: Alaska)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2)
• Jurassic of China (11), France (1), India (4), Mexico (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (1: Oregon/Idaho)
• Triassic of the Netherlands (1)
• Permian of India (2), Italy (2)
Total: 335 collections including 569 occurrences