Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae

Full reference: M. von Balthazar, K. R. Pedersen, P. R. Crane, M. Stampanoni, and E. M. Friis. 2007. Potomacanthus Lobatus Gen. Et Sp. Nov, A New Flower of Probable Lauraceae from the Early Cretaeous (Early To Middle Albian) of Eastern North America. American Journal of Botany 94(12):2041-2053

Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to M. von Balthazar et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Actinodaphne, Alseodaphne, Bandulskaia, Beilschmiedia, Benzoin, Cinnamomum, Crowella, Cryptocarya, Cryptocaryoides, Daphnogene, Daphnophyllum, Diemenia, Goeppertia, Lauraceaephyllum, Lauraceophylloderma, Lauranthus, Laurinastrum, Laurinoxylon, Laurocalyx, Laurocarpum, Laurophyllites, Laurophyllum, Laurus, Lindera, Litsaeophyllum, Litsea, Litseaphyllum, Litseopsis, Machilus, Machilusoxylon, Malapoenna, Marmarthia, Mauldinia, Mespilodaphne, Mezilaurinoxylon, Michilus, Nectandra, Nectandrophyllum, Neocinnamomum, Neolitsea, Nothaphoebe, Ocotea, Ocoteoxylon, Oreodaphne, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potoxylon, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia, Williamodendron

Subtaxa: Potomacanthus lobatus

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Type: Potomacanthus lobatus

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Puddledock (Cretaceous of Virginia)

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