Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Parent taxon: Menispermaceae according to M. Prasad 2008
See also Chandler 1964, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919 and Liu et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Bowerbankella, Calkinsia, Canticocculus, Carronia, Cebatha, Chandlera, Cissampelos, Cocculeae, Cocculinae, Cocculites, Cocculophyllum, Diploclisia, Entoneuron, Eohypserpa, Fibraureae, Frintonia, Goweri, Hyalosepalum, Hyperbaena, Hypserpa, Martinmuellera, Menispermaphyllum, Menispermeae, Menispermicarpum, Menispermites, Menispermoxylon, Menispina, Microtinomiscium, Odontocaryoidea, Palaeococculus, Palaeosinomenium, Parabaena, Pericampylus, Rhytidocaryon, Stephania, Syntrisepalum, Tinomiscoidea, Tinospora, Tinosporeae, Wardenia, Wardensheppeya, Wilkinsoniphyllum
Subtaxa: Cocculus cinnamomeus Cocculus flabella Cocculus haydenianus Cocculus lottii Cocculus minutus Cocculus miotrilobus Cocculus polycarpaefolius Cocculus problematicus
Type: Cocculus lottii
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1 collection), Nepal (1)
• Miocene of China (2), Japan (2), United States (2: Montana, Nebraska)
• Eocene of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Clarkforkian of United States (4: North Dakota)
• Tertiary of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of China (1), United States (14: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of United States (14: North Dakota, South Dakota)
Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence
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