Mimosites Bowerbank 1840

Angiospermae - Rosales - Mimosaceae

Full reference: J. S. Bowerbank. 1840. A History of the Fossil Fruits & Seeds of the London Clay. 1-144

Parent taxon: Mimosaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Andrews 1970, Berry 1914, Bowerbank 1840 and Liu et al. 1996

Sister taxa: Acaciaephyllum, Acaciaphyllites, Mimosa, Mimosocarpum, Pithecolobium, Prosopis, Viborquia

Subtaxa: Mimosites acaciaefolius Mimosites browniana Mimosites georgianus Mimosites inaequilateralis Mimosites lanceolatus Mimosites linearis Mimosites spiegeli Mimosites variabilis

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Type: Mimosites spiegeli

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Bolivia (3 collections)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Trinidad and Tobago (1)

• Miocene of United States (1: Montana), Venezuela (1)

• Neogene of China (1)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1)

• Eocene of China (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Colorado, Georgia, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Colorado)

Total: 19 collections including 20 occurrences

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