Angiospermae - Celastrales - Celastraceae
Parent taxon: Celastrales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000 and MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Lepidobotryaceae, Stackhousiaceae
Subtaxa: Asterocelastrus Canticarpum Cathispermum Celastrinanthium Celastrinites Celastrinoxylon Celastrocarpus Celastrus Elaeodendron Elaeodendroxylon Euonymus Goupioxylon Gyminda Gymnosporioxylon Lophopetalumoxylon Maytenus Mystroxylon Pachystima Perrottetia Perrottetioxylon Reissantia Sarawakodendron
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (11 collections), India (7)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), China (4), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), Germany (2), India (1), Kenya (5), United States (4: Montana, Nevada, Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Colorado)
• Eocene of France (1), United States (9: California, Colorado, Texas, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (2)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: British Columbia), United States (21: North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)
Total: 85 collections including 94 occurrences