Polypodiopsida - Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Polypodiidae according to PPG. I 2016
See also Jud 2011
Sister taxa: Gleicheniales, Hymenophyllales, Osmundales, Polypodiales, Salviniales, Schizaeales
Subtaxa: Cyatheaceae Hagiophyton Loxsomataceae Metaxyaceae Plagiogyriaceae Thyrsopteridaceae Yavanna
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (45 collections), India (6), Panama (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1)
• Pliocene of Panama (5), Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (13)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Puerto Rico (8)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (31: California, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), India (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (6), Argentina (1), Australia (4), Canada (11: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), India (6), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (2), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (18), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (16: Alaska, California, Maryland, Montana, Utah)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (5: British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), India (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (8)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (3), Antarctica (2), Argentina (4), Australia (4), Belarus (4), China (143), France (1), Georgia (12), India (15), Iran (2), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (19), Kyrgyzstan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (4), Mongolia (5), New Zealand (6), Poland (1), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (178), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Sri Lanka (1), Tajikistan (26), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (20), United States (5: Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (12)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Kazakhstan (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (1), China (2), Germany (2), Italy (1), Lesotho (1), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (3), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Permian of France (3), Portugal (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Kansas, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: New Brunswick), Germany (1), Spain (2), United States (5: Alaska, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)
Total: 750 collections including 1375 occurrences