Angiospermae - Sapindales - Simaroubaceae
Alternative spelling: Simarubaceae
Parent taxon: Sapindales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Su et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Anacardiaceae, Aurantiaceae, Biebersteiniaceae, Burseraceae, Cneoraceae, Coahuiloxylon, Dodonaeaceae, Ilicaceae, Kirkiaceae, Lampetia, Meliaceae, Nitrariaceae, Paleosantalaceaepites, Ptaeroxylaceae, Rutaceae, Sapindaceae
Subtaxa: Ailanthoxylon Ailanthus Brucea Simarouboxylon
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (4 collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1)
• Neogene of India (3)
• Miocene of China (5), Germany (2), Japan (1), Nepal (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), the Russian Federation (7)
• Eocene of China (1), Germany (1), India (1), United States (6: California, Colorado, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (2)
• Cretaceous of India (2)
Total: 46 collections including 51 occurrences