Sabalites Saporta 1865 (fan palm)

Angiospermae - Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae

Parent taxon: Coryphoideae according to T. Su and Z. K. Zhou 2019

See also Andrews 1970, Berry 1914, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996 and MacGinitie 1941

Sister taxa: Chamaerops, Copernicia, Coryphoides, Livistona, Serenoa, Trachycarpus, Tuzsonia

Subtaxa: Sabalites californicus Sabalites campbelli Sabalites carolinensis Sabalites fructifer Sabalites magothiensis Sabalites microphylla Sabalites oxyrhachis Sabalites powellii Sabalites suessionensis Sabalites tibetensis

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Type: Sabalites oxyrhachis

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Miocene of Chile (1 collection), India (1), Pakistan (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of China (4), Japan (1), United States (1: California)

• Paleocene to Eocene of China (1)

• Paleogene of China (1)

• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)

• Cretaceous of Romania (1), Spain (3), United States (13: Colorado, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 30 collections including 34 occurrences

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