Liliacidites Couper 1953

Angiospermae - Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae

Parent taxon: Liliaceae according to F. De Benedetti et al. 2023

See also Archangelsky 1973, Huang et al. 2023, Jarzen 1982, Perez Loinaze et al. 2023, Vallati et al. 2016, Vallati et al. 2020 and Vera et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Agave, Albucastrum, Aletris, Brachyruscus, Cretovarium, Crinanthus, Gloriosa, Gloriosites, Majanthemophyllum, Smilacophyllum

Subtaxa: Liliacidites aviemorensis Liliacidites baculatus Liliacidites buitrensis Liliacidites circularis Liliacidites contortus Liliacidites crassatus Liliacidites crassibaculatus Liliacidites crassilabratus Liliacidites ellipticus Liliacidites hungaricus Liliacidites inequalis Liliacidites intermedius Liliacidites kaitangataensis Liliacidites lacunosus Liliacidites lanceolatus Liliacidites lenticularis Liliacidites microreticulatus Liliacidites minireticulatus Liliacidites nigeriensis Liliacidites peroreticulatus Liliacidites regularis Liliacidites reticulatus Liliacidites textus Liliacidites variegatus Liliacidites vermireticulatus

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Pliocene of India (1 collection)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), India (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (5)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Cuba (2), India (1), Myanmar (19), United States (49: Louisiana, Missouri, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (20), Australia (5), Canada (3: Manitoba), India (2)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (2)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Argentina (21), Australia (18), the Bahamas (6), Brazil (4), Canada (8: Alberta), China (1), Egypt (2), Israel (3), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), Nigeria (1), Peru (3), South Sudan (2), Spain (1), United States (5: Alaska, Montana, North Dakota)

Total: 208 collections including 298 occurrences

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