Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to M. Prasad 2008
See also Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Srivastava 1991
Sister taxa: Actinodaphne, Alseodaphne, Bandulskaia, Beilschmiedia, Benzoin, Cinnamomum, Crowella, Cryptocarya, Cryptocaryoides, Daphnogene, Daphnophyllum, Diemenia, Goeppertia, Lauraceaephyllum, Lauraceophylloderma, Lauranthus, Laurinastrum, Laurinoxylon, Laurocalyx, Laurocarpum, Laurophyllites, Laurophyllum, Laurus, Lindera, Litsaeophyllum, Litsea, Litseaphyllum, Litseopsis, Machilus, Machilusoxylon, Malapoenna, Marmarthia, Mauldinia, Mespilodaphne, Mezilaurinoxylon, Michilus, Nectandra, Nectandrophyllum, Neocinnamomum, Neolitsea, Nothaphoebe, Ocotea, Ocoteoxylon, Oreodaphne, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia
Subtaxa: Persea borbonia Persea brossiana Persea coloradica Persea dilleri Persea hayana Persea leconteana Persea longipetiolata Persea mycrophylla Persea praelingue Persea pseudocarolinensis Persea pubescens Persea punctulata Persea purniyagiriensis Persea schimperi Persea speciosa Persea sternbergii Persea valida Persea wilcoxiana
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Trinidad and Tobago (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (3), United States (1: California)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1), Japan (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Brazil (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), Germany (2), Japan (7), Peru (1), Switzerland (5), United States (5: California, Idaho, Vermont), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Germany (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Colorado)
• Eocene of United States (18: California, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming)
• Tertiary of Japan (1), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of United States (9: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of Chile (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (3: Wyoming)
Total: 74 collections including 80 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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