Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Ebenaceae
Parent taxon: Ericales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1962, Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Austrodiospyros Diospyros Ebenacites Ebenoxylon
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of India (3), Nepal (1), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), China (2), Germany (1), India (7), Nepal (1), Switzerland (1), United States (5: California, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Washington)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Australia (4), Canada (1: British Columbia), Japan (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (6: California, Wyoming)
• Paleogene of India (2)
• Paleocene of United States (3: Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: South Carolina, Wyoming)
Total: 72 collections including 92 occurrences