Full reference: E. M. Friis, K. R. Pedersen, and P. R. Crane. 1995. Appomattoxia ancistrophora gen. et sp. nov., a new Early Cretaceous plant with similarities to Circaeaster and extant Magnoliidae. American Journal of Botany 82(7):933-943
Parent taxon: Angiospermae according to E. M. Friis et al. 1995
See also Jud 2011
Sister taxa: Aachenoxylon, Acer florigerum, Aceriphyllum, Achaenites, Actinidiophyllum, Aesculiphyllum, Afropollis, Amborellales, Ameghinoites, Ancoraecarpon, Anthites, Araliophyllum, Araliphyllum, Archaefructaceae, Aulacoxylon, Austrobaileyales, Berendtia, Bresciphyllum, Cantia, Carolites, Carpantholithes, Carpiniphyllum, Carpolithus, Cedrelospermites, Chondrophyton, Cinnamomiphyllum, Coronicutis, Corylocarpinus, Costicutis, Cucubalites, Dejaxpollenites, Dicotyledoneae, Dieune, Dodonaeaecarpum, Eorhiza, Ettingshausenia, Euanthus, Evodioxylon, Finiversicutis, Flabellicula, Globocarpon, Glossocarpellites, Hamamelidoxylon, Hesperidophyllum, Intuticutis, Involucrum, Jordania, Juglandiphyllum, Lagenella, Lagenoidea, Lamids, Lappacarpus, Lausaticutis, Leyrida, Limnophyllum, Magnoliids, Mastixiaceae, Mesangiosperms, Monocarpellites, Monocotyledoneae, Montsechia, Montsechites, Morophyllum, Mulleroxylon, Naiadaceae, Nymphaeales, Ochthodocaryon, Oculopollis, Ornoxylon, Palackya, Pandanophyllum, Papillopollis, Pataloxylon, Phyllodermium, Pilicoronicutis, Pilisolicutis, Plantaginopsis, Platycoila, Pleiacron, Proteophyllum, Proteopsis, Protorchis, Qingganninginfructus, Retimonocolpites, Rhamnophyllum, Rhoedales, Rhoophyllum, Riboidoxylon, Rohlfsia, Ronzocarpon, Rosenkrantzia, Rosids, Rottia, Sabulia, Sahnipushpam, Salicinoxylon, Salicites, Sassendorfites, Saxonicutis, Schafhautlia, Sendelia, Sezannia, Silicophyllum, Sjogrenia, Staphidoides, Statzia, Staubia, Stephanoxylon, Suevioxylon, Symphorocarpophyllum, Ternstroemioxylon, Tetracolpites, Tetrapollis, Tetraporopollenites, Thuringicutis, Triphyllum, Triplicarpus, Trudopollis, Tubericutis, Virgaticutis, Wessexia, Woburnia, Xulinosprionites, Yubaria
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Puddledock locality (Cretaceous of Virginia)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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