Angiospermae - Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Parent taxon: Proteales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011, Mabberley 2000, McIver and Basinger 1993 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Beauprea, Darlingia, Nelumbonales, Peninsulapollis, Platanaceae, Proteaceae, Retidiporites, Sabiaceae, Stenocarpus, Triatriopollenites
Subtaxa: Exnelumbites Nelumbago Nelumbo Nelumbopollenites
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (3 collections), Japan (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (3), India (2), Japan (1), United States (4: North Dakota)
• Paleocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan), United States (14: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Mexico (1), United States (15: Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 54 collections including 58 occurrences