Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Parent taxon: Saxifragales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963, Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, Taylor et al. 2008 and Wu and Sun 2015
Sister taxa: Altingiaceae, Ambaroxylon, Aphanopetalaceae, Cercidiphyllaceae, Crassulaceae, Cynomoriaceae, Daphniphyllaceae, Escalloniiphyllum, Grossulariaceae, Haloragaceae, Haloragis, Iteaceae, Paeoniaceae, Penthoraceae, Peridiscaceae, Saxifragaceae, Tetracarpaeaceae
Subtaxa: Allonia Androdecidua Corylopsiphyllum Corylopsis Corylopsites Distylium Eoliquidambar Exbucklandia Fothergilla Hamamelidanthium Hamamelis Hamamelites Liquidambar Liquidambaroxylon Loropetalum Mytilaria Parrotia Parrotiopsis Protoaltingia Rhodoleia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), France (1), India (2), Japan (2), United States (3: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)
• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (6), Japan (2), Portugal (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (3), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (4), Germany (48), Japan (10), Poland (2), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (4), Türkiye (1), United States (15: Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Germany (14), Japan (1), Puerto Rico (4), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Montana, Oregon, Virginia)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (3), Germany (1), Japan (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (55: Alaska, California, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of China (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: Alaska, Montana, Wyoming)
• Tertiary of Japan (3)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), China (1), United States (5: Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 243 collections including 307 occurrences