Parent taxon: Polypodiopsida according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023
See also De Benedetti et al. 2024, Hermsen et al. 2013, I 2016, Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919, Vallati et al. 2020 and Vera et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Acrocarpus, Biretisporites, Blechnaceae, Cladophlebis, Dicksoniaceae, Equisetidae, Gleicheniaceae, Marattiidae, Osmundaceae, Polypodiaceae, Polypodiidae, Protopteris, Pseudosalvinia, Pterygopteris, Punctatosporites, Schizopteris, Tempskyaceae, Verrucosisporites
Subtaxa: Collarisporites Crybelosporites Cystorrhiza Gabonisporis Lugiomarsiglia Marsilea Marsileaceaephyllum Mirasolita Molaspora Pillularia Regnellidium Rhizocarpites Rodeites
Distribution:
• Miocene of Germany (6 collections), the Russian Federation (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), India (1)
• Paleogene of India (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Argentina (26), Australia (35), Brazil (12), Canada (22: Alberta, Nunavut), Colombia (2), Egypt (67), India (5), Japan (1), Libya (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (3), Peru (1), South Sudan (7), Sudan (37), United States (22: Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Virginia)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1)
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 270 collections including 305 occurrences