After Cleal & Rees, 2003 and Cleal & Shute, 2003
<==o †Medullosales [Medullosacaea] |?- †Stephanospermum konopeonus (Langford) Drinnan [reproductory parts] |--o †Potonieaceae [Rachivestitaceae; Perispermaceae] | |-- †Paripteris Gothan, 1941 (fronds) | |-- †Linopteris Presl, in Sternberg, 1838 (fronds) | |-- †Sutcliffia Scott, 1906 (stems) | |-- †Potoniea Zeiller, 1890 (pollen organs) | `-- †Hexagonocarpus Renault, in Renault & Zeiller, 1888 (ovules) |--o †Alethopteridaceae | |-- †Alethopteris Sternberg, 1825 | |-- †Cardioneuropteris Goganova et al., 1992 | |-- †Lonchopteridium Gothan, in Potonié, 1909 | |-- †Lonchopteris Brongniart, 1928 | |-- †Neuralethopteris Cremer ex laveine, 1967 | `?- †Crossopteris Tidwell, 1967 |--o †Neurodontopteridaceae Laveine, 1966 [incl. Odontopteridaceae sensu Corsin, 1960] | |--o †Neuropteris (Brongniart) Sternberg, 1825 sensu stricto | | |-- †N. ovata Hoffmann [=? Cyclopteris ciliata -group] | | `--o †N. obliqua¨ | | `-- †N. obliqua forma impar [Cyclopteris otopteroides] | |-- †Macroneuropteris Cleal et al., 1990 | |-- †Reticulopteris Gothan, 1953 | |?- †Neurocallipteris Sterzel, 1895 | |?- †Neurodontopteris Potonié, 1893b | |?- †Barthelopteris Zodrow & Cleal, 1993 | `?-o †Odontopteris (Brongniart) Brongniart, 1831 | `-- †O. brardii Brongniart [Cyclopteris trichomanoides; Cyclopteris biauriculata; Cyclopteris iliciformis] `--o †Cyclopteridaceae |--o †Cyclopteris Brongniart, 1828 [morphogenus, leaves] [68! validly published species (see Cleal & Shute, (2003, fig. 3A) for details)] | |--+-- †C. orbicularis Brongniart, 1828 | | |-- †C. andraei | | |-- †C. collinsii | | |-- †C. germarii | | |-- †C. heterophylla | | |-- †C. ingens | | |-- †C. major | | |-- †C. oblata | | |-- †C. obliqua | | |-- †C. pinna | | |-- †C. recurvata | | |-- †C. robinsonii | | |-- †C. schoenaichii | | |-- †C. semiflabeliformis | | |?- ?†C. rarinervia | | `?- ?†C. grandis | |--o †C. ciliata -group | | |-- †C. ciliata | | |-- †C. fimbriata | | |-- †C. lacerata | | |-- †C. lacinata | | |-- †C. undans | | `-- †C. wilsonii | `-- †C. hirta |-- †Callipterygium (Weiss) Grand'Eury, 1877 [morphogenus, fronds] |-- †Margaritopteris Gothan, 1913 `--o †Laveineopteris Cleal, et al., 1990 emend. Cleal & Shute, 2003 |-- †L. loshii (Brongniart, 1831) Cleal, et al., 1990 emend. Cleal & Shute, 2003 [taxonomic history] |--o †L. tenuifolia (Schlotheim ex Sternberg, 1825) Cleal, et. al., 1990 emend. Cleal & Shute, 2003 [] | |-- †L. tenuifolia var. tenuifolia (Schlotheim ex Sternberg, 1825) Cleal, et. al., 1990 emend. Cleal & Shute, 2003 | `-- †L. tenuifolia var. nordfrancia Bertrand, 1930 emend. Cleal & Shute, 2003 |-- †L. rarinervis (Bunbury, 1847) Cleal, et al., 1990 emend. Cleal & Shute, 2003 [] |-- †L. gaudiatensis (Wagner) |-- †L. hollandica (Stockmans) |-- †L. jongmansii (Crookall) |-- †L. morinii (Laveine) |-- †L. nicolausiana (Gotham) `-- †L. piesbergensis (Gotham)
Reference(s):
- Cleal, C. J. & Rees, P. M., 2003: The Middle Jurassic Flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK.
–Palaeontology: Vol. 46, #4, pp. 739-801 - Cleal, C. J. & Shute, C. H., 2003: Systematics of the Late Carboniferous medullosalean pteridosperm Laveineopteris and its associated Cyclopteris leaves.
–Palaeontology: Vol. 46, #2, pp. 353-411