Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Symplocaceae
Parent taxon: Ericales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1962, Chandler 1963 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Durania Epacridicarpum Pallioporia Sphenotheca Symplocoides Symplocoipollenites Symplocos
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (28 collections), India (8)
• Pliocene of Germany (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Japan (3)
• Miocene of Denmark (1), Germany (77), India (1), Japan (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Massachusetts, Vermont)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Germany (20), the United Kingdom (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of India (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (28: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Tertiary of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (3), Canada (4: Alberta)
Total: 201 collections including 382 occurrences