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Gleicheniidites
Taxonomy
Gleicheniidites was named by Dettmann (1963). It is not extant. It is considered to be a form taxon.
It was assigned to Gleicheniaceae by Dettmann (1963), Dettmann (1963), Jarzen (1982), Povilauskas et al. (2008), Vallati et al. (2016), Santamarina et al. (2020), Vallati et al. (2020), Vera et al. (2022), Perez Loinaze et al. (2023), Perez Loinaze et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Gleicheniaceae by Dettmann (1963), Dettmann (1963), Jarzen (1982), Povilauskas et al. (2008), Vallati et al. (2016), Santamarina et al. (2020), Vallati et al. (2020), Vera et al. (2022), Perez Loinaze et al. (2023), Perez Loinaze et al. (2025).
Species
G. apilobatus, G. aptianus, G. argentinus, G. bulbosus, G. campanianus, G. cercinidites, G. circinidites, G. confossus, G. delcourtii, G. delicatus, G. fildesensis, G. indicus, G. microgranulosus, G. mundus, G. neyvelii, G. pachydermus, G. rigidus, G. senonicus, G. serratus, G. trijugatus, G. trivalvis, G. vulgaris
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1963 | Gleicheniidites Dettmann |
| 1982 | Gleicheniidites Jarzen p. 15 |
| 2008 | Gleicheniidites Povilauskas et al. p. 822 |
| 2016 | Gleicheniidites Vallati et al. p. 498 |
| 2020 | Gleicheniidites Santamarina et al. p. 53 |
| 2020 | Gleicheniidites Vallati et al. p. 5 |
| 2022 | Gleicheniidites Vera et al. |
| 2023 | Gleicheniidites Perez Loinaze et al. |
| 2025 | Gleicheniidites Perez Loinaze et al. p. 4 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Gleicheniidites Dettmann 1963
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†Gleicheniidites apilobatus Brenner 1963
†Gleicheniidites aptianus Llorens 2008
†Gleicheniidites argentinus Volkheimer 1972
†Gleicheniidites bulbosus Kemp 1970
†Gleicheniidites campanianus Cao 1994
†Gleicheniidites cercinidites Cookson 1953
†Gleicheniidites circinidites Dettmann 1963
†Gleicheniidites confossus Hedlund 1966
†Gleicheniidites delcourtii Döring 1965
†Gleicheniidites delicatus Pocock 1970
†Gleicheniidites fildesensis Cao 1994
†Gleicheniidites indicus Singh et al. 1964
†Gleicheniidites microgranulosus Sah and Jain 1965
†Gleicheniidites mundus Sah and Jain 1965
†Gleicheniidites neyvelii Ramanujam 1967
†Gleicheniidites pachydermus Cao 1994
†Gleicheniidites rigidus Llorens 2008
†Gleicheniidites senonicus Ross 1949
†Gleicheniidites serratus Archangelsky and Llorens 2005
†Gleicheniidites trijugatus Norvick and Burger 1975
†Gleicheniidites trivalvis Cao 1994
†Gleicheniidites vulgaris Schrank 1994
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spore diameter | 1 | 0.028 |
No ecological data are available
Collections (463 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhaetian | Netherlands | G. sp. (137658) | |
| Jurassic | Canada (Nunavut) | G. sp. (102065) | |
| Late/Upper Sinemurian | Argentina (Neuquén) | G. sp. (151447) G. sp. B, G. sp. C (151448) | |
| Middle Jurassic - Late/Upper Cenomanian | Egypt (Western Desert) | G. spp. (139303) | |
| Middle Bathonian | France | G. conspiciendus, G. senonicus (31319) G. senonicus (31317 31321) | |
| Callovian - Oxfordian | Israel (Negev) | G. feronensis (140281 140282 140283) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | India (Jharkhand) | G. sp., G. microgranulosus, G. mundus (224607) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous | Canada (Nunavut) | G. sp. (102063 102064) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic - Early/Lower Cretaceous | India (Gujarat) | G. senonicus (224625) | |
| Neocomian | Egypt (Sinai) | G. senonicus (140636) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Early/Lower Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | G. circinidites (169006 169007 169237) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Argentina (Chubut) | G. circinidites (143211 143212 143213 143214) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Miocene | Argentina | G. circinidites (169468) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | New Zealand | G. senonicus (169164) | |
| Miocene | USA (Massachusetts) | G. sp. (231784) | |
| Miocene | India (Tamil Nadu) | G. neyvelii (224618) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (New south wales) | G. spp. (168989 168997 169002 169003) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (New South Wales) | G. sp. (224044) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina (Catamarca) | G. senonicus (137142) | |
| Pliocene | USA (Massachusetts) | G. sp. (231796) | |