Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Parent taxon: Laurales according to Z. X. Wang and B. N. Sun 2019
See also Adhikari et al. 2018, Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chandler 1964, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, Ozaki 1974, Taylor et al. 2008 and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
Sister taxa: Atherospermataceae, Calycanthaceae, Crassidenticulum, Densinervum, Gomortegaceae, Hernandiaceae, Landonia, Monimiaceae, Olmosoxylon, Pabiania, Pandemophyllum, Patagoxylon, Siparunaceae, Tetrantheroidea, Timothyia
Subtaxa: Actinodaphne Alseodaphne Bandulskaia Beilschmiedia Benzoin Cinnamomum Crowella Cryptocarya Cryptocaryoides Daphnogene Daphnophyllum Diemenia Goeppertia Lauraceaephyllum Lauraceophylloderma Lauranthus Laurinastrum Laurinoxylon Laurocalyx Laurocarpum Laurophyllites Laurophyllum Laurus Lindera Litsaeophyllum Litsea Litseaphyllum Litseopsis Machilus Machilusoxylon Malapoenna Marmarthia Mauldinia Mespilodaphne Mezilaurinoxylon Michilus Nectandra Nectandrophyllum Neocinnamomum Neolitsea Nothaphoebe Ocotea Ocoteoxylon Oreodaphne Persea Perseanthus Perseoxylon Persites Phoebe Piliparicutis Potomacanthus Protoravensara Sassafras Sassafrophyllum Trianthera Ulminium Umbellularia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (2), China (2), France (1), India (5), Japan (2), Laos (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Florida), Vietnam (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (2)
• Pliocene of China (5), Germany (4), United States (1: California)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Brazil (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1), India (7), Japan (4), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Neogene of China (2), Vietnam (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (1), Brazil (1), Chile (2), China (10), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (2), Germany (31), Haiti (1), India (8), Japan (15), Nepal (2), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (11), Turkey (1), United States (12: California, Idaho, Montana, Vermont, Washington), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Germany (1)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (21), India (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Idaho, Montana, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Australia (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (19), Australia (21), Canada (4: British Columbia), China (9), France (1), Germany (1), India (4), Japan (12), the United Kingdom (13), United States (63: Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming ), Venezuela (1)
• Clarkforkian of United States (56: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1)
• Paleogene of Chile (1), India (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Colombia (9), France (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (87: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming)
• Tertiary of Japan (2), Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Canada (11: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), United States (101: California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Wyoming)
Total: 652 collections including 1222 occurrences