Family Selaginellaceae Willkomm 1854 (spikemoss)

Lycopodiopsida - Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae

Parent taxon: Selaginellales according to PPG. I 2016

See also Chandler 1961, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Camarozonosporites, Ceratosporites, Densoisporites, Foveosporites, Retispora

Subtaxa: Antulsporites Heliosporites Herkosporites Neoraistrickia Patellasporites Perotrilites Selaginella

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (12 collections), the Bahamas (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Michigan, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Germany (1), Panama (1), Portugal (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Germany (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of Australia (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Costa Rica (1), Germany (13), Panama (13), the Russian Federation (7), Switzerland (3), United States (1: Massachusetts)

• Neogene of United States (1: Massachusetts)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (17), Puerto Rico (3)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Myanmar (28), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Tertiary of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (5), United States (7: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota)

• Paleogene of India (1)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (34), Argentina (14), Australia (23), Brazil (36), Canada (4: Alberta), Chile (1), China (1), Cote D'Ivoire (3), Egypt (5), Germany (1), India (2), Israel (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Myanmar (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (4: Colorado, Iowa, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: Nunavut), India (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), France (1), India (3)

• Triassic to Jurassic of France (1), Sweden (1)

• Triassic of Antarctica (2), Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Arizona)

• Rotliegendes of Norway (12)

• Permian of Canada (2: Nunavut), India (2), Norway (4), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Carboniferous of Belgium (1)

• Devonian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the United Kingdom (13), United States (2: New York, Pennsylvania)

Total: 338 collections including 436 occurrences

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