Angiospermae - Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Parent taxon: Araceae according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023
See also Archangelsky 1973, Huang et al. 2023, Pérez Pincheira and di Pasquo 2021, Pérez Pincheira and Garrido 2024, Scafati et al. 2009 and Vallati et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acoropsis, Acorus, Anthuriophyllum, Araceaeites, Araceaepites, Araceophyllum, Aracispermum, Arecites, Arisaema, Arisaemites, Aronites, Aronium, Caladiosoma, Campylospermum, Cobbania, Colocasia, Colocasioideaepites, Lemnoideae, Monsteroideae, Natantisphyllum, Orontioideae, Pandaniidites, Peltandra, Pistia, Pistites, Porosia, Thrinax, Typhonium
Subtaxa: Proxapertites cursus Proxapertites humbertoides Proxapertites magnus Proxapertites maracaiboensis Proxapertites operculatus Proxapertites psilatus Proxapertites tertiaria Proxapertites verrucatus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1 collection)
• Eocene of Colombia (29), Myanmar (48), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi), Venezuela (67)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (13), Colombia (16), Pakistan (57), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi), Venezuela (58)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (13), Nigeria (1), South Sudan (1)
Total: 322 collections including 553 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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