Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Parent taxon: Proteales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, Taylor et al. 2008, Vallati et al. 2020 and Vera et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Beauprea, Darlingia, Nelumbonaceae, Nelumbonales, Peninsulapollis, Platanaceae, Retidiporites, Sabiaceae, Stenocarpus, Triatriopollenites
Subtaxa: 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 Phyllites Propylipollis Proteacidites Proteaephyllum Proteoides Proteoxylon Rogersia Stenocarpites Stirlingia Telopea Triporopollenites Xylomelum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (50 collections), China (1), India (2), Laos (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Vietnam (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (1), China (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (2), South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (15), Brazil (1), Chile (1), China (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Germany (1), India (3), Nepal (1), New Zealand (3), United States (7: California, Idaho, Virginia, Washington)
• Neogene of China (2), Vietnam (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (8), Australia (7), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (5), United States (1: Virginia), Vietnam (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (3), Australia (2), Chile (1), United States (3: Colorado)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (3)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (15), Australia (30), China (9), Colombia (20), Cuba (2), France (1), Germany (23), India (1), Myanmar (7), New Zealand (10), Southern Ocean (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (102: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Washington, Wyoming), Venezuela (11)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1), Australia (3), China (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Antarctica (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (35), Australia (13), Canada (6: Manitoba), China (2), Colombia (1), India (2), New Zealand (10), Pakistan (62), United States (117: Alaska, California, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming), Venezuela (35)
• Tertiary of India (1)
• Paleogene of Chile (1), China (2), India (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (4), Argentina (1), New Zealand (10)
• Cretaceous to Neogene of China (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (37), Argentina (47), Brazil (3), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), Ecuador (2), Egypt (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (3), South Sudan (7), Sudan (1), United States (68: Alaska, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 887 collections including 1809 occurrences