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), Venezuela (58)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), South Sudan (1)
Total: 204 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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