Polypodiopsida - Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Schizaeales according to PPG. I 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chandra and Tewari 1991, Cladera et al. 2007, Gardner and Ettingshausen 1880, Hickey 1977, Iglesias 2016, Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919, Lapasha and Miller 1985, Mabberley 2000 and MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Anemiaceae, Appendicisporites, Convolutispora, Lygodiaceae, Nodosisporites, Plicatella, Ruffordiaspora
Subtaxa: Acrostichopteris Anemieae Baieropsis Cicatricosisporites Cicatricososporites Distaltriangulisporites Klukisporites Lygodieae Lygodiumsporites Microfoveolatosporites Mintopteris Mohria Mohriopsis Neyvelia Norimbergia Pastoria Pelletieria Pelletixia Protornithopteris Ruffordia Schizaea Schizaeangium Schizaeoisporites Schizaeopsis Schizaeopteris Senftenbergia Undulatisporites Waldenburgia
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (10 collections), India (1)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), India (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Massachusetts)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Colombia (20), Cuba (1), Germany (1), India (1), Myanmar (32), United States (55: Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (4), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (1), Colombia (1), India (2), United States (9: Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota)
• Cretaceous to Neogene of China (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (13), Argentina (34), Australia (36), Austria (1), the Bahamas (6), Belgium (1), Brazil (160), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), China (2), Colombia (31), Cote D'Ivoire (3), Egypt (75), France (1), Germany (1), Ghana (8), India (8), Israel (15), Jordan (5), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Nigeria (3), Peru (4), Portugal (10), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (4), Senegal (4), South Korea (1), South Sudan (6), Spain (3), Sudan (46), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Kansas, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1), India (1), Peru (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), China (16), Egypt (5), India (7), Japan (3), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of India (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Namurian of United States (1: Illinois)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: New Brunswick), United States (3: Illinois, Indiana)
Total: 729 collections including 1200 occurrences