Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Full reference: L. J. Hickey. 1977. Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota. The Geological Society of America Memoir 150:1-183
Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to L. J. Hickey 1977
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, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia
Subtaxa: Persites argutus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (5: North Dakota, Wyoming collections)
• Paleocene of United States (53: North Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 58 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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