Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike 1954 (soapberry)

Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae

Parent taxon: Sapindaceae according to D. T. Blackburn and I. R. K. Sluiter 1994

See also Huang et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Alectryon, Allophylus, Arytera, Athyana, Bohlenia, Cardiospermum, Cupania, Cupanites, Diatenopteryx, Djambioxylon, Dodonaea, Dodonaeites, Doratoxylon, Erioglossum, Euphorea, Euphoriaecarpum, Euphoriopsis, Euphorioxylon, Filicium, Fraasia, Ganophyllum, Harpullia, Heterodendrum, Hypelate, Klaassenoxylon, Koelreuteria, Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Omalocarpus, Otophora, Palaealectryon, Palaeallophyllus, Paranephelium, Pometioxylon, Sapindaceaepites, Sapindiphyllum, Sapindoidea, Sapindoides, Sapindophyllum, Sapindopsis, Sapindopsoxylon, Sapindospermum, Sapindoxylon, Sapindus, Schleichera, Schleicheroxylon, Striasyncolpites, Thouinopsis, Tripterodendron, Xerospermum, Aesculus, Aesculoxylon, Acerites, Rulac, Monopleurophyllum, Acer, Acerpollenites, Dipteronia

Subtaxa: Cupanieidites acuminatus Cupanieidites othoteichus Cupanieidites reticularis

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (16)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (3), Australia (4)

• Oligocene of Argentina (6)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Jamaica (1), Myanmar (43), United States (12: California, Louisiana, Missouri, Virginia)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Pakistan (24), United States (4: Virginia, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (2)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Nigeria (1), United States (1: North Dakota)

Total: 131 collections including 146 occurrences

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