Polypodiopsida - Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Polypodiineae according to PPG. I 2016
See also Jud 2011, Mabberley 2000 and McIver and Basinger 1993
Sister taxa: Davalliaceae, Lomariopsidaceae, Nephrolepidaceae, Oleandraceae
Subtaxa: Athyrium Ctenis Dryopteridoideae Elaphoglossoideae Nephrodium Olfersites Polybotryoideae
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), India (13), United States (4: Michigan, Washington)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (3)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado)
• Eocene of United States (12: Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of China (1), United States (8: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Canada (6: British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Ecuador (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Alaska, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (2), Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Belarus (3), China (27), Georgia (8), Greenland (5), India (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Norway (1), Poland (2), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (22), Tajikistan (4), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (17), Uzbekistan (5)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (14), Greenland (8), Japan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), South Africa (1), South Korea (2), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (1)
Total: 212 collections including 260 occurrences