Angiospermae - Fagales - Myricaceae
Parent taxon: Fagales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919, Liang et al. 2010, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Betulaceae, Casuarinaceae, Fagaceae, Juglandaceae, Nothofagaceae, Nothofagidites, Ticodendraceae
Subtaxa: Comptonia Distichostrobus Morella Myrica Myricaceoipollenites Myricaephyllum Myricanthium Myriciphyllum Myricipites Myricoxylon Pelticutis Strobilanthus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (4), Japan (1), Tanzania (1), United States (2: Florida, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Bolivia (2), China (4), Germany (3), Portugal (11), United States (2: Alaska, Florida)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Azerbaijan (3), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (4), Denmark (5), Germany (79), Poland (2), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (6), United States (10: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada)
• Neogene of China (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (20), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (11), Canada (4: British Columbia), China (5), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (7), New Zealand (7), the United Kingdom (3), United States (9: Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), India (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), United States (8: Colorado, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)
Total: 248 collections including 318 occurrences