Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to P. G. Aceñolaza and F. G. Aceñolaza 1996
See also Knowlton 1919 and Liu et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Actinodaphne, Alseodaphne, Bandulskaia, Beilschmiedia, Benzoin, Cinnamomum, Crowella, Cryptocarya, Cryptocaryoides, Daphnogene, Daphnophyllum, Diemenia, Goeppertia, Lauraceaephyllum, Lauraceophylloderma, Lauranthus, Laurinastrum, Laurinoxylon, Laurocalyx, Laurocarpum, Laurophyllites, Laurophyllum, Laurus, Lindera, Litsaeophyllum, Litsea, Litseaphyllum, Litseopsis, Machilus, Machilusoxylon, Malapoenna, Marmarthia, Mauldinia, Mespilodaphne, Mezilaurinoxylon, Michilus, Nectandra, Nectandrophyllum, Neocinnamomum, Neolitsea, Nothaphoebe, Ocoteoxylon, Oreodaphne, Patagonoxylon, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Potoxylon, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia, Williamodendron
Subtaxa: Ocotea nassauensis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene of Germany (4 collections), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of China (1), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of United States (24: Wyoming)
Total: 33 collections including 34 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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