Angiospermae - Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Parent taxon: Nelumbonaceae according to E. E. McIver and J. F. Basinger 1993
See also Chauhan 1991, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996 and Srivastava 1991
Sister taxa: Exnelumbites, Nelumbago, Nelumbopollenites
Subtaxa: Nelumbo aureavallis Nelumbo dawsoni Nelumbo intermedia Nelumbo kempii Nelumbo lakesiana Nelumbo laramiensis Nelumbo nangalensis Nelumbo nucifera Nelumbo protolutea Nelumbo puertae Nelumbo pygmaea Nelumbo saskatchuense
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (3 collections), Japan (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (3), India (2), Japan (1), United States (4: North Dakota)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (6: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (14: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 41 collections including 43 occurrences
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