Parent taxon: Lamiids according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Boraginales, Gentianales, Icacinales, Lamiales
Subtaxa: Eucommiaceae Garryaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1 collection), Germany (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Germany (4), Japan (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Montana)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Oregon, Virginia)
• Eocene of China (1), United States (7: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia)
• Clarkforkian of United States (3: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of United States (55: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 86 collections each including a single occurrence