Angiospermae - Asterales - Asteraceae
Synonyms: Compositae Giseke 1792, Tubuliflorae
Full reference: F. v. Berchtold and J. S. Presl. 1820. O Přirozenosti Rostlin. 1
Parent taxon: Asterales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1978, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, Taylor et al. 2008 and Vallati et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Alseuosmiaceae, Argophyllaceae, Argophyllum, Calyceraceae, Campanulaceae, Donatiaceae, Goodeniaceae, Menyanthaceae, Pentaphragmataceae, Phellinaceae, Rousseaceae, Stylidiaceae, Stylidium
Subtaxa: Achyranthemum Adenophyllum Amboroa Amphoricarpos Anaphalis Anthemis Artemisia Aster Asteracarpus Bidentites Blumea Calycites Capelio Carduoideae Carduus Cassinia Centaurea Centratherum Chardinia Chrysactinium Cichorioideae Cirsium Cnicus Compositoipollenites Crepis Deinandra Dicoma Dittrichia Echitricolporites Eclipta Emilia Fenestrites Fulcaldea Galeomma Glebianthemum Heterolepis Hieracites Hofmeisteria Hyoserites Inula Jaumea Leucactinia Lomatozona Lophiocirsium Lowryanthus Macvaughiella Nahuatlea Oblivia Pseudoglossanthis Raiguenrayun Richterago Roebuckiella Senecio Smallanthus Sonchus Strotheria Taraxacum Tenrhynea Triptilion Tubulifloridites Vernonia Xanthium
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (44), the Bahamas (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (57), Iran (2), Italy (2), Japan (3), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (57), Tanzania (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Florida, Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina, Utah, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (2), Japan (1), North Atlantic (7), Portugal (10), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Florida, Massachusetts)
• Hemphillian of United States (2: Indiana, Tennessee)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Bolivia (1), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (2), Germany (1), India (1), North Atlantic (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (6), Australia (1), Azerbaijan (2), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), Japan (1), North Atlantic (2), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (11: Massachusetts, Nebraska, Virginia)
• Oligocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (9)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Germany (2), Southern Ocean (1), United States (6: California, Colorado, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), United States (4: Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (17), Canada (1: British Columbia), India (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: Montana, South Carolina)
Total: 308 collections including 559 occurrences