Parent taxon: Ginkgoopsida according to S. V. Meyen 1984
See also Christophel 1976, Holmes 1982, Jain and Delevoryas 1967, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Lapasha and Miller 1985, McLoughlin et al. 1995 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Asterophyllum, Calamopityales, Callistophytales, Caytoniales, Czekanowskiales, Dactylophyllum, Ephedrales, Karkeniales, Leptostrobales, Linguifolium, Pentoxylales, Umaltolepididae
Subtaxa: Baieroxylon Bavaricutis Caucasia Eoginkgoites Eretmophyllum Euryspatha Ginkgoaceae Ginkgoxylon Gondwanophyton Handapaphyllum Permophyllum Phyllotenia Pseudoginkgo Pseudotorelliaceae Schmeissneriaceae Sphenobaiera Toretziaceae Umaltolepidiaceae Windwardia
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)
• Miocene of Germany (1), Poland (1), United States (3: Montana, Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Idaho)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Canada (3: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (2), Japan (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (3: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), United States (16: Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Australia (2), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), China (5), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (2), India (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (11), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (35: Alaska, Arizona, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon), India (2), the Russian Federation (7)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (2), Azerbaijan (1), Belarus (2), Chile (1), China (113), France (9), Georgia (11), Germany (4), Greenland (11), India (14), Iran (2), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (22), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (5), Norway (2), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (161), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Tajikistan (27), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (36), United States (3: Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon/Idaho), Uzbekistan (12)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Australia (1), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), Georgia (2), Kazakhstan (1), Romania (1), Sweden (1), Ukraine (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (7), Australia (8), Austria (1), Chile (5), China (48), France (2), Germany (2), Greenland (7), Hungary (1), India (4), Iran (3), Japan (2), Kyrgyzstan (2), Lesotho (4), Mongolia (3), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (22), South Africa (38), South Korea (6), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (5), United States (5: New Mexico, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia)
• Permian of Canada (1: Nunavut), China (6), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (3), Germany (16), India (7), Italy (4), Madagascar (2), Morocco (3), Oman (2), the Russian Federation (8), South Africa (1), South Korea (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Carboniferous of Germany (2), United States (1: West Virginia)
Total: 858 collections including 1668 occurrences