Matoniaceae

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Matoniaceae
Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Recent
Matonia pectinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Gleicheniales
Family: Matoniaceae
C.Presl
1847
Genera

Matoniaceae is one of the three

Polypodiopsida class.[1][2] Fossil records reveal that Matoniaceae ferns were abundant during the Mesozoic era (about 250-million to 66-million years ago), during which they lived on every continent, including Antarctica, with eight genera and 26 species, with the oldest known specimens being from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica.[3] Today the family is much less abundant, and also less diverse, with only two extant genera and four species,[4] which are limited to portions of southeastern Asia.[5]

The following diagram shows a likely

phylogenic relationship with the other two families of the Gleicheniales.[6]

Gleicheniales
Gleicheniaceae

 6 extant genera

Dipteridaceae

 2 extant genera

 Matoniaceae 

Matonia

Phanerosorus

Extant taxa

Mesozoic subtaxa

Laccopteris elegans

Some common Mesozoic Matoniaceae genera and a sampling of their species include:

  • genus Laccopteris Presl 1838
    • species Laccopteris elegans Presl 1838
    • species Laccopteris münsteri Schenk 1867
  • genus Phlebopteris Brongniart 1828
    • species Phlebopteris polypodioides Brongniart
    • species Phlebopteris smithii
    • species Phlebopteris woodwardii Leckenby 1864
    • species Phlebopteris utensis
    • species Phlebopteris angustiloba
  • genus Matonidium
  • genus Matonia R.Br. ex Wall. 1829[7]
    • species Matonia jeffersonii
    • species Matonia pectinata
    • species Matonia braunii
    • species Matonia mesozoica
    • species Matonia brownii
  • genus Microdictyon
  • genus Weichselia Stiehler
  • Tomaniopteris Klavins et al. Fremouw Formation, Middle Triassic, Antarctica
  • Konijnenburgia Kvaček et Dašková, 2010 Piedra Clavada Formation, Argentina, Albian

References

  1. JSTOR 25065646. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2008-02-26.
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  5. ^ Robbin C. Moran (2004). A Natural History of Ferns. Timber Press, Portland & Cambridge. pp. 119–124.
  6. PMID 22022365
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  7. ^ Nagalingum & Cantrill: Early Cretaceous Gleicheniaceae and Matoniaceae (Gleicheniales) from Alexander Island, Antarctica Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 138 (2006)