Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Sapotaceae
Parent taxon: Sapotaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Axelrod 1939
Sister taxa: Bassia, Chrysophylloxylon, Chrysophyllum, Eoachras, Illipophyllum, Isonandrophyllum, Kaikoraia, Madhucoxylon, Mimusops, Neolemonniera, Palaquiophyllum, Palaquium, Pilimparicutis, Pouterlabatia, Sapotaceoidaepollenites, Sapotacites, Sapoteites, Sapoticarpum, Sapotispermum, Sapotophyllum, Sapotoxylon, Sarcosperma, Siderinium, Siderophyllum, Sideroxylon
Subtaxa: Bumelia americana Bumelia florissanti Bumelia grenadensis Bumelia hurleyensis Bumelia oklahomensis Bumelia praenuntia Bumelia preangustifolia Bumelia pseudohorrida Bumelia pseudolanguinosa Bumelia pseudotenax Bumelia rhomboidea Bumelia wilcoxiana
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Panama (4 collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), China (1), Cuba (1), Haiti (1), United States (3: California, Nevada)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of United States (2: Mississippi, Oregon)
• Tertiary of the Dominican Republic (1)
Total: 17 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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