Proteacidites Cookson and Couper 1953

Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae

Parent taxon: Proteaceae according to F. De Benedetti et al. 2023

See also Archangelsky 1973, Huang et al. 2023, Jarzen 1982, Perez Loinaze et al. 2023, Vallati et al. 2016 and Vallati et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Agastachys, Banksia, Banksieae, Banksieaeformis, Banksieaeidites, Banksieaephyllum, Banksites, Beaupreaidites, Cardwellia, Cenarrhenes, Conospermites, Conospermum, Constantinium, Cranwellipollis, Doroteoxylon, Dryandra, Dryandroides, Echitriporites, Embothriophyllum, Embothriopsis, Embothrites, Euproteaciphyllum, Grevillea, Hakea, Hakeites, Helicia, Hicksbeachia, Isopogon, Knightia, Knightiophyllum, Knightiophyllum, Knightites, Lambertia, Lambertiphyllum, Leucadendrites, Leucospermites, Lewalanipollis, Lomatia, Lomatites, Macclintockia, Maslinia, Musgravea, Musgraveinanthus, Myricophyllum, Orites, Palaeodendron, Palibinia, Parafatsia, Persoonia, Persoonieaephyllum, Petrophile, Propylipollis, Proteaephyllum, Proteoides, Proteoxylon, Rogersia, Stenocarpites, Stirlingia, Telopea, Triporopollenites, Xylomelum

Subtaxa: Proteacidites africaensis Proteacidites amolosexinus Proteacidites angulatus Proteacidites baibianae Proteacidites beddoesii Proteacidites cooksonii Proteacidites dehaani Proteacidites excertus Proteacidites miniporatus Proteacidites mirasolensis Proteacidites obscurus Proteacidites parvus Proteacidites protrudus Proteacidites pseudomoides Proteacidites retiformis Proteacidites scaboratus Proteacidites sigalii Proteacidites subscabratus Proteacidites symphyonemoides Proteacidites tenuiexinus

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (15), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Virginia)

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

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

• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1), Chile (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (14), Argentina (3), Australia (5), Myanmar (4), United States (3: Louisiana)

• Paleocene to Oligocene of Antarctica (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (2)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (22), Australia (13), India (1)

• Paleogene of Chile (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), New Zealand (7)

• Cretaceous to Neogene of China (1)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (30), Argentina (14), Canada (2: Alberta), China (1), Egypt (1), Peru (1), Senegal (3), South Sudan (6), United States (22: Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina)

Total: 200 collections including 486 occurrences

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