Parent taxon: Fabid according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011, Pujana et al. 2018 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Celastrales, Cucurbitales, Fabales, Fagales, Malpighiales, Rosales, Zygophyllales
Subtaxa: Brunelliaceae Cephalotaceae Connaraceae Cunoniaceae Elaeocarpaceae Huaceae Oxalidaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (49 collections), India (4)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Nepal (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), India (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), Germany (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Australia (2)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Australia (9), Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (56: Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming, Wyoming )
• Clarkforkian of United States (26: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Tertiary of Japan (1)
• Paleogene of India (3)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Colombia (4), New Zealand (1), United States (15: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Argentina (3), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 215 collections including 315 occurrences