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 Propylipollis Proteacidites Proteaephyllum Proteoides Proteoxylon Rogersia Stenocarpites Stirlingia Telopea Triporopollenites Xylomelum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (48 collections), India (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (2), South Atlantic (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Australia (15), Chile (1), Germany (1), India (2), Nepal (1), New Zealand (3), United States (1: Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (7), Australia (7), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (5), United States (1: Virginia)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (3), Australia (2), Chile (1), United States (3: Colorado)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (14), Argentina (15), Australia (30), China (9), Colombia (20), Cuba (2), France (1), Myanmar (7), New Zealand (10), the United Kingdom (1), United States (58: Colorado, Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, Wyoming), Venezuela (11)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Antarctica (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1), Australia (3), China (1)
• Paleogene of Chile (1), China (2)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (22), Australia (13), Canada (6: Manitoba), China (1), Colombia (1), India (2), New Zealand (10), Venezuela (35)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (4), Argentina (1), New Zealand (10)
• Cretaceous to Neogene of China (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (33), Argentina (19), Brazil (3), Canada (7: Alberta), China (1), Egypt (2), Peru (1), Senegal (3), South Sudan (7), Sudan (1), United States (31: Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)
Total: 517 collections including 1359 occurrences