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Marattiales
| Description | Marattiaceae is the only family of extant (living) ferns in the order Marattiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Marattiales is the only order in the subclass Marattiidae. The family has six genera and about 110 species. Many are different in appearance from other ferns, having large fronds and fleshy rootstocks. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marattiales, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Marattiales | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Marattiales | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marattiales |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Asterothecaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Marattiaceaefamily | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 117 | 393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Ptychocarpaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Weichseliaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Corsinopteris genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0119248. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Christenhusz, Maarten J. M., Xian-Chun Zhang, and Harald Schneider, 2011: A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa, vol. 19. 7-54. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
Araguaína, Tocantins, Brazil