†family Myristicaceae Brown 1810 (magnoliids)

Angiospermae - Magnoliales - Myristicaceae

Parent taxon: Magnoliales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016

See also Mabberley 2000, McIver and Basinger 1993 and Taylor et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Annonaceae, Degeneriaceae, Endressinia, Eupomatiaceae, Himantandraceae, Krauselicutis, Magnoliaceae

Subtaxa: Myristica Myristicacarpum Myristicophyllum Virola

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), the Marshall Islands (2)

• Pliocene of the Marshall Islands (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Nepal (1)

• Miocene of Germany (1), India (1), the Marshall Islands (3)

• Oligocene of India (1), Peru (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Germany (1)

• Paleocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan)

Total: 18 collections including 19 occurrences

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