Order Arecales Bromhead 1840
Parent taxon: Monocots according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Acorales, Aglaoreidia, Araceae, Arecaceae, Asparagales, Commelinales, Commelinids, Dioscoreales, Liliaceae, Liliales, Pandanales, Petrosaviales, Poales, Zingiberales
Subtaxa: Clavamonocolpites Dasypogonaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of Colombia (5 collections)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (3)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence