Parent taxon: Myrtales according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023
See also Huang et al. 2023 and Ruiz and Quattrocchio 1997
Sister taxa: Alzateaceae, Combretaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Haloragidaceae, Heterocolpites, Hydrocaryaceae, Lythraceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, Oliniaceae, Onagraceae, Penaeaceae, Punicaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, Sonneratiaceae, Trapaceae, Vochysiaceae
Subtaxa: Myrtaceidites eugeniioides Myrtaceidites mesonesus Myrtaceidites parvus Myrtaceidites verrucosus
Type: Myrtaceidites mesonesus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (6), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (7), Australia (5), Cuba (1), Myanmar (26), United States (2: Missouri)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (6), Canada (1: Manitoba), United States (1: Mississippi)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Canada (1: Alberta)
Total: 80 collections including 109 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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