Parent taxon: Bennettitales according to J. Watson and C. A. Sincock 1992
See also Andrews 1970 and Chandra and Tewari 1991
Sister taxa: Amarjolia, Anomozamites, Bennetticarpus, Bennettistemon, Bennettitaceae, Bennettitaepollenites, Bennettiteaepollenites, Bennettitolepis, Bysmatospermum, Coreanophyllum, Cycadeospermum, Cycadolepis, Dictyozamites, Guptioxylon, Leguminanthus, Lerouxia, Moltenia, Monanthesia, Ontheanthus, Ontheostrobus, Otozamites, Palaeanthus, Piroconites, Pseudocycas, Pterophyllum, Ptilophyllum, Purioxylon, Rajmahalia, Sahnioxylon, Sturiella, Tyrmia, Tysonia, Vardekloeftia, Weltrichia, Wielandiella, Williamsonia, Williamsoniaceae, Williamsonianthus, Williamsoniella, Wonnacottia, Zamites
Subtaxa: Nilssoniopteris tenuinervis Nilssoniopteris variabilis
Type: Nilssoniopteris tenuinervis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of India (1 collection)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2)
• Jurassic of China (5), Colombia (1), Georgia (10), India (1), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (2), Norway (2), Romania (12), the Russian Federation (14), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (16), Uzbekistan (4)
• Triassic to Jurassic of France (1), Sweden (1)
• Triassic of China (6), Iran (1), Sweden (2), United States (2: New Mexico, Utah)
Total: 85 collections including 129 occurrences
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