Myrtaceidites Cookson and Pike 1960

Dicotyledoneae - Myrtales

Parent taxon: Myrtales according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023

See also Huang et al. 2023, PĂ©rez Pincheira and di Pasquo 2021 and Ruiz and Quattrocchio 1997

Sister taxa: Alzateaceae, Combretaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Haloragidaceae, Heterocolpites, Hydrocaryaceae, Lythraceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, Oliniaceae, Onagraceae, Penaeaceae, Punicaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, Sonneratiaceae, Trapaceae, Vochysiaceae

Subtaxa: Myrtaceidites eugeniioides Myrtaceidites mesonesus Myrtaceidites parvus Myrtaceidites verrucosus

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (6), New Zealand (1)

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

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (7), Australia (5), Cuba (1), Myanmar (26), United States (4: Alabama, Missouri)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (7), Canada (1: Manitoba), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Canada (1: Alberta)

Total: 83 collections including 110 occurrences

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