Polypodiopsida - Marattiales - Marattiidae
Parent taxon: Marattiales according to PPG. I 2016
See also Gardner and Ettingshausen 1880, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Asansolia, Asterotheca, Auriculopora, Eupsaronius, Grandeurya, Grandeuryella, Hydropteraceae, Ptychocarpus
Subtaxa: Acitheca Amadocopteris Angiopteridium Angiopteris Asterocarpus Caulopteris Cyclotheca Eoangiopteris Goolandia Macrotaenia Marattia Marattiopsis Marattiotheca Megaphyton Mertensides Mesozoisynangia Octotheca Pronephrium Psaroniocaulon Psaronites Psaronius Ptisana Rajahia Renaultia Rhinipteris Scolecopteris Tubiculites Winchellina Zeilleria
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (5 collections)
• Miocene of Switzerland (2)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), India (1), United States (1: Minnesota)
• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Azerbaijan (1), China (6), Georgia (1), India (11), Iran (1), Israel (1), Japan (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (29), Tajikistan (15), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (17), Uzbekistan (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Mexico (1)
• Triassic of Australia (2), China (20), France (1), India (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Mexico (15), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (1), United States (3: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Permian of China (9), Germany (2), India (5), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Texas)
• Namurian of Spain (1)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (20: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec), Norway (1), United States (3: Michigan, New York, Ohio)
Total: 215 collections including 255 occurrences