Parent taxon: Mesangiosperms according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011
Sister taxa: Ceratophyllales, Eudicots, Magnoliid, Monocots
Subtaxa: Chloranthaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Australia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (7)
• Eocene of Australia (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (12)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (8), Argentina (31), Australia (13), Brazil (15), Chile (1), Colombia (6), Egypt (28), France (1), Israel (3), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), North Atlantic (6), Peru (3), United States (4: Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota)
Total: 151 collections including 178 occurrences