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Osmunda

Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1753Osmunda Linnaeus
1880Osmunda Gardner and Ettingshausen p. 49
1899Osmunda Knowlton
1919Osmunda Knowlton
1963Osmunda Chandler p. 35
1976Osmunda Lakhanpal et al.
1977Osmunda Hickey
1991Osmunda Chauhan
1993Osmunda McIver and Basinger
1996Osmunda Liu et al.
2000Osmunda Mabberley

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumPteridophyta
classPolypodiopsida
RankNameAuthor
familyOsmundaceaeBerchtold and Presl
genusOsmunda

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. Osmunda Linnaeus 1753
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Osmunda arctica Heer 1883
Osmunda delawarensis Berry 1906
Osmunda dicksonioides Fontaine 1889
Osmunda doroschkiana Göppert 1861
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Invalid names: Osmunda torelli Heer 1878 [synonym]
Osmunda greenlandica Brown 1962
Osmunda heerii Gaudin 1908
Osmunda hollicki Knowlton 1918
Osmunda lignita Giebel 1857
Osmunda macrophylla Penhallow 1908
Osmunda montanensis Knowlton 1905
Osmunda novaecaesarae Berry 1907
Osmunda obergiana Heer 1895
Osmunda occidentale Knowlton 1917
Osmunda spectabilis Willdenow 1910
Osmunda sphenopteroides Fontaine 1889
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Ladinian to the top of the Holocene or 242.00000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (67 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Barentsøya) O. jurassica (212895)
Late/Upper Valanginian - Early/Lower Hauterivian140.2 - 130.0Canada (British Columbia) O. vancouverensis (99179)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Mexico (Chiapas) O. sp. (68835)
Albian113.0 - 100.5USA (Wyoming) Asplenium occidentale (102759)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (Wyoming) Asplenium occidentale (34972)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0USA (Wyoming) Asplenium occidentale (31382)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France (Charente-Maritime) O. cretacea (119082)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (Wyoming) Asplenium occidentale (31964 31965 31966)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0Antarctica O. sp. (150273)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0USA (North Dakota) O. hollicki (96781)
Early/Lower Paleocene66.0 - 61.7USA (Montana) O. macrophylla, O. greenlandica (53692)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Canada (Saskatchewan) O. macrophylla (34427 34431)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0China (Heilongjiang) O. greenlandica (223817)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0USA (Colorado) O. greenlandica (39899)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0USA (North Dakota) O. macrophylla (58035)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0United Kingdom (England) O. dowkeri (21215)
Clarkforkian56.2 - 54.9USA (North Dakota) O. macrophylla (10810 10968) O. sp. (10983)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) O. sp. (227994)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9USA (Alaska) O. doroschkiana (112317)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9China (Heilongjiang) O. heeri (223823)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6USA (Colorado) O. greenlandica (53070)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6USA (Idaho) O. occidentalis (35347 35348)
MP 1348.6 - 40.4Germany (Eifel) O. lignitum (24201)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) O. lignitum (24106 24107)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Hainan) O. lignita (223825)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene47.8 - 33.9China (Liaoning) O. lignita (223815)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Russian Federation O. sp. (45449)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1USA (Idaho) O. occidentale (27569)
Rupelian - Chattian33.9 - 23.03United Kingdom (England) O. lignitum (27665)
Rupelian - Chattian33.9 - 23.03Germany (Saxony) O. lignitum (24978)
Late/Upper Oligocene - Late/Upper Eocene28.4 - 33.9USA (Oregon) O. occidentale (35921)
Miocene - Oligocene23.03 - 23.03USA (Montana) O. occidentalis (23975)
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44Canada (Northwest Territories) O. sp. (21371)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333USA (Massachusetts) O. sp. (231784 231797 231798 231824 231825)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333USA (Montana) O. occidentalis (22933 23973)
Langhian - Serravallian15.97 - 11.62Poland (Silesia) O. sp. (28443)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Russian Federation O. sp. (45451)
Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene15.97 - 5.333China (Yunnan) O. japonica, O. totangensis (223824)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Germany (Brandenburg) O. parschlugiana (27514)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Japan (Gunma) O. japonica (22755)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Portugal O. sp. (232112 232121 232122 232124 232125 232126 232144 232145 232147 232148)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Germany (Thuringia) O. heerii (22778) O. regalis (22781)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (North Carolina) O. regalis (61887)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0India (Himachal Pradesh) O. sp. (228780 228781)