Proxapertites operculatus Van der Hammen 1956

Angiospermae - Mesangiosperms - Araceae

Belongs to Proxapertites according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023

See also Huang et al. 2023, Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001 and Van der Hammen and Garcia de Mutis 1966

Sister taxa: Proxapertites cursus, Proxapertites humbertoides, Proxapertites magnus, Proxapertites maracaiboensis, Proxapertites psilatus, Proxapertites tertiaria, Proxapertites verrucatus

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Eocene of Colombia (14 collections), Myanmar (45), Venezuela (67)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Colombia (15), Pakistan (44), Venezuela (58)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), South Sudan (1)

Total: 248 collections each including a single occurrence

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