Angiospermae - Boraginales - Boraginaceae
Synonym: Codonaceae Weigend and Hilger
Parent taxon: Boraginales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Chandler 1964, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxon: Heliotropiaceae
Subtaxa: Arnebia Biorbia Boraginocarpus Borraginites Calvarinus Cordia Cordioxylon Davisella Ehretia Ehretiaecarpum Ehretioideae Heliotropium Lithospermites Myoporiphyllum Prolithospermum Sericostoma Trichodesma
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (14 collections), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (3: Indiana, Kansas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
• Miocene of India (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Nebraska)
• Oligocene of Peru (1)
• Eocene of Japan (7), the United Kingdom (4)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Tertiary of Japan (1)
Total: 38 collections including 42 occurrences