Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Sapotaceae
Parent taxon: Ericales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1962, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Bassia Bumelia Chrysophylloxylon Chrysophyllum Eoachras Illipophyllum Isonanadrophyllum Kaikoraia Madhucoxylon Mimusops Palaquiophyllum Palaquium Pilimparicutis Pouterlabatia Sapotaceoidaepollenites Sapotacites Sapoteites Sapoticarpum Sapotispermum Sapotophyllum Sapotoxylon Sarcosperma Siderinium Siderophyllum Sideroxylon
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (17 collections), India (1), Laos (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1), Panama (4), Portugal (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Trinidad and Tobago (2), Uganda (1)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Miocene of Australia (12), Azerbaijan (1), Brazil (2), China (1), Cuba (1), Haiti (1), India (6), Kenya (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (6: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Puerto Rico (2)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Japan (5), Myanmar (48), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Missouri, Oregon), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Colombia (5)
• Tertiary of the Dominican Republic (1), Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (1: British Columbia)
Total: 147 collections including 199 occurrences