Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Parent taxon: Gleicheniales according to PPG. I 2016
See also Jud 2011, Kimura and Kim 1988, Lapasha and Miller 1985 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxon: Matoniaceae
Subtaxa: Apachea Dictyophyllum Dipteris Hausmannia Thaumatopteris
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (1), India (5), Kazakhstan (1), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (6: Montana, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), India (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (2), Argentina (8), Australia (2), Belarus (1), Chile (1), China (36), Georgia (6), Germany (1), Greenland (8), India (6), Iran (2), Italy (1), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (4), Kyrgyzstan (2), Lithuania (1), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (3), Romania (13), the Russian Federation (60), Tajikistan (16), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (22), United States (2: Alaska, Montana), Uzbekistan (4)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Georgia (2), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), Sweden (1), Ukraine (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (2), Armenia (1), Australia (3), Austria (1), Chile (5), China (61), Germany (3), Greenland (17), Hungary (3), Iran (5), Japan (3), Kyrgyzstan (2), Lesotho (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (7), South Korea (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (2), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (4), United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia/North Carolina), Vietnam (1)
Total: 384 collections including 611 occurrences