Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Berberidaceae
Parent taxon: Ranunculales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Anthotypolithes, Circaeasteraceae, Eupteleaceae, Fumariaceae, Lardizabalaceae, Menispermaceae, Papaveraceae, Pteridophyllaceae, Ranunculaceae, Teixeiraea
Subtaxa: Berberidiphyllum Berberis Mahonia Odostemon Winchellia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (7 collections), United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)
• Pliocene of China (2), Germany (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Bolivia (1), China (2), United States (18: California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (2: Montana)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of United States (7: Idaho, Oregon)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: North Dakota)
Total: 55 collections including 87 occurrences