Dicotyledoneae - Myrtales - Combretaceae
Parent taxon: Myrtales according to P. Adhikari et al. 2018
See also Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
Sister taxa: Alzateaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Haloragidaceae, Heterocolpites, Hydrocaryaceae, Lythraceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, Myrtaceidites, Oliniaceae, Onagraceae, Penaeaceae, Punicaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, Sonneratiaceae, Trapaceae, Vochysiaceae
Subtaxa: Anogeissus Anogeissusoxylon Anogeissuxylon Calycopteris Combretacinium Combretanthites Combretum Conocarpites Conocarpus Getonites Laguncularia Terminalia Terminalioxylon Terminaliphyllum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), India (4), Kenya (3), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2), India (1), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (2), India (3), Panama (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (2), Nepal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Uganda (9)
• Miocene of Bhutan (1), China (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), India (15), Nepal (2), Panama (3), Thailand (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (2)
• Neogene of India (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of India (2)
• Oligocene of China (1), India (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of India (2), Myanmar (1), United States (6: California, Georgia, Texas)
• Paleogene of India (2)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia)
Total: 86 collections including 114 occurrences