Angiospermae - Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Parent taxon: Fagales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Guerin and Hill 2003, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Juglandaceae, Myricaceae, Nothofagaceae, Nothofagidites, Ticodendraceae
Subtaxa: Allocasuarina Casuarina Casuarinidites Casuarinites Casuaroxylon Cupuliferites Gymnostoma Quercophyllum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (46 collections), India (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (13), New Zealand (5), United States (3: Massachusetts)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (5), Australia (10), Canada (1: British Columbia), Myanmar (24), New Zealand (10), United States (19: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (6: Virginia)
• Paleocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (3), United States (16: South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of United States (13: Missouri, South Carolina)
Total: 186 collections including 214 occurrences