Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Parent taxon: Cyperaceae according to H. N. Andrews 1970
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962 and Chandler 1963
Sister taxa: Bisboeckelera, Capitularina, Carex, Cladiocarya, Cladium, Coleochloa, Cyperaceoxylon, Cyperacites, Cyperocarpus, Cyperus, Eleocharis, Gahnia, Krenakia, Liaoxia, Machaerina, Polycarpella, Schoenoplectus, Scirpitis, Scirpoideae, Scirpus, Scirpusoxylon, Scleriocarya, Trianoptiles, Volkeria
Subtaxa: Caricoidea Caricoideae nitens
Type: Carpolithes nitens
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Germany (1 collection)
• Miocene of Germany (38), United States (1: Vermont)
• Oligocene of Germany (7), the United Kingdom (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (9)
• Paleocene of the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 59 collections including 70 occurrences