Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae
Parent taxon: Proteales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Christophel 1976, Hickey 1977, Johnson 2002, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, McIver and Basinger 1993, Taylor et al. 2008 and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2003
Sister taxa: Beauprea, Darlingia, Nelumbonaceae, Nelumbonales, Peninsulapollis, Proteaceae, Retidiporites, Sabiaceae, Stenocarpus, Triatriopollenites
Subtaxa: Aquia Aspidiophyllum Credneria Hamatia Langeranthus Langeria Macginicarpa Macginistemon Macginitiea Platananthus Plataninium Platanites Platanocarpus Platanophyllum Platanoxylon Platanus Pseudoaspidiophyllum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), United States (1: California)
• Hemphillian of United States (2: California, Indiana)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Germany (3), Switzerland (3), Turkey (1), United States (16: California, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Montana)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (7), Japan (1), United States (7: Idaho, Montana, Oregon)
• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), China (2), Japan (2), United States (63: California, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (10: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (7: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (2), United States (110: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (25: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (8), Sweden (1), United States (107: Alaska, California, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
Total: 391 collections including 525 occurrences