Synonym: Navisulcites Anderson 1960
Parent taxon: Monocotyledoneae according to Cookson and Couper 1953
See also Frederiksen 1973
Sister taxa: Alismales, Alismatales, Arales, Arundo, Commelinacea, Commelinidae, Deccananthus, Doryanthites, Dracaenites, Festucophyllites, Florentinites, Glumiflorae, Graminales, Halocharis, Helobiae, Hypoglossidium, Isselia, Liliidae, Microrrhagion, Monocotylophyllum, Monocotylorhizos, Monocotylostrobus, Monoporites, Najadales, Palmales, Palmoidopteris, Pandanites, Phylladelphia, Phyllotaenia, Podostachys, Principes, Ravenalospermum, Restioniidites, Sabalpollenites, Scitaminales, Scitamineae, Shuklanthus, Spathiflorae, Stellatopollis, Triloculaire, Triloculocarpon, Velamenorhizos, Viracarpon, Xyridales, Zingiberidae
Subtaxa: Monosulcites (Palmidites) Monosulcites asymmetricus Monosulcites borassioides Monosulcites chaloneri Monosulcites couperi Monosulcites epakros Monosulcites glottus Monosulcites granulatus Monosulcites kashmiriensis Monosulcites magnosagenatus Monosulcites magnus Monosulcites major Monosulcites maxima Monosulcites minima Monosulcites minimus Monosulcites minutiscabratus Monosulcites neyveliense Monosulcites ovatus Monosulcites parvus Monosulcites perspinosus Monosulcites planus Monosulcites pseudospinosus Monosulcites scabrus Monosulcites spinosus Monosulcites subgranulosus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (2 collections)
• Miocene of India (2)
• Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (13), Canada (5: Manitoba), India (2), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Brazil (28), Canada (1: Alberta), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Egypt (2), France (1), India (2), Israel (9), Madagascar (1), Nigeria (24), North Atlantic (6), Peru (1), Senegal (2), United States (3: Montana, New Jersey)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of India (1)
• Jurassic of France (2), India (2), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of Poland (2)
• Permian of Poland (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 123 collections including 149 occurrences
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