Synonym: Osmundites Jaeger 1827
Parent taxon: Bennettitales according to A. A. Santos et al. 2022
See also Andrews 1970, Chandra and Tewari 1991, Dobruskina 1995, Kimura and Kim 1988, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Moisan et al. 2010, Vavrek et al. 2007 and Watson and Sincock 1992
Sister taxa: Amarjolia, Anomozamites, Bennetticarpus, Bennettistemon, Bennettitaceae, Bennettitaepollenites, Bennettiteaepollenites, Bennettitolepis, Bysmatospermum, Coreanophyllum, Cycadeospermum, Cycadolepis, Dictyozamites, Guptioxylon, Leguminanthus, Lerouxia, Moltenia, Monanthesia, Nilssoniopteris, Ontheanthus, Ontheostrobus, Otozamites, Palaeanthus, Piroconites, Pseudocycas, Ptilophyllum, Purioxylon, Rajmahalia, Sahnioxylon, Sturiella, Tyrmia, Tysonia, Vardekloeftia, Weltrichia, Wielandiella, Williamsonia, Williamsoniaceae, Williamsonianthus, Williamsoniella, Wonnacottia, Zamites
Subtaxa: Pterophyllum aequale Pterophyllum affine Pterophyllum alaskense Pterophyllum astartense Pterophyllum bavieri Pterophyllum brevipenne Pterophyllum burdwanense Pterophyllum cheondaeriense Pterophyllum compressum Pterophyllum contiguum Pterophyllum ctenoides Pterophyllum daleanum Pterophyllum distans Pterophyllum exhibens Pterophyllum footeanum Pterophyllum fragile Pterophyllum guptai Pterophyllum inaequale Pterophyllum incisum Pterophyllum jaegeri Pterophyllum karkatiensis Pterophyllum kingianum Pterophyllum lepidum Pterophyllum longifolium Pterophyllum lowryanum Pterophyllum medlicottianum Pterophyllum micraequale Pterophyllum minus Pterophyllum montanense Pterophyllum morrisianum Pterophyllum nathorsti Pterophyllum nerbuddaicum Pterophyllum princeps Pterophyllum propinquum Pterophyllum rajmahalense Pterophyllum sahnii Pterophyllum santajuanensis Pterophyllum sinensis Pterophyllum subaequale Pterophyllum taylorsvillensis Pterophyllum thomasi Pterophyllum tietzei Pterophyllum trichomatosum Pterophyllum trilobatum Pterophyllum xiphipterum
Type: Pterophyllum longifolium
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (6: British Columbia), China (3), India (3), Japan (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Egypt (1), India (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Belarus (1), Chile (1), China (57), France (2), Georgia (9), Greenland (10), India (26), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (7), Kazakhstan (7), Mexico (5), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (3), Norway (1), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Romania (22), the Russian Federation (30), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (13), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (16), United States (1: Alaska), Uzbekistan (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), France (1), Georgia (1), Mexico (1), Romania (1), Sweden (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (1), Armenia (1), Australia (3), Austria (3), Canada (1: Nunavut), Chile (3), China (67), France (1), Germany (10), Greenland (14), India (2), Iran (7), Italy (7), Japan (2), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (25), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (7), South Korea (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Sweden (3), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (5), Ukraine (4), United States (8: North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia/North Carolina), Vietnam (1)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of Australia (2), China (9), India (4), North Korea (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Morocco (1)
Total: 470 collections including 829 occurrences
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