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Myristicaceae
Taxonomy
Myristicaceae was named by Brown (1810).
It was assigned to Magnoliales by McIver and Basinger (1993), Mabberley (2000), Taylor et al. (2008) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
It was assigned to Magnoliales by McIver and Basinger (1993), Mabberley (2000), Taylor et al. (2008) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1810 | Myristicaceae Brown |
| 1993 | Myristicaceae McIver and Basinger |
| 2000 | Myristicaceae Mabberley |
| 2008 | Myristicaceae Taylor et al. p. 1029 |
| 2016 | Myristicaceae The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group p. 14 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Myristicaceae Brown 1810
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G. †Myristica Gronovius
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†Myristica catahoulensis Berry 1924
†Myristica palaeoglomerata Awasthi and Prasad 1990
†Myristica siwalica Prasad et al. 2017
G. †Myristicacarpum Gregor 1977
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Paleocene to the top of the Holocene or 66.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleocene | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Myristica catahoulensis (34421 34425) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina | Myristica fossilis (32201) | |
| Middle Eocene | Germany (Hesse) | Myristicacarpum sp. (140304) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Peru (Piura) | Virola tertiaria (64545) | |
| Oligocene | India | Myristica sp. (212868) | |
| Miocene - Oligocene | Peru | Virola tertiaria (139872) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Marshall Islands | Virola cancellata (78029) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Nepal | Myristica palaeoglomerata (222975) | |
| Burdigalian | Germany (Bayern) | Myristicacarpum miocaenicum (28280) | |
| Middle Miocene | India (Uttarakhand) | Myristica siwalica (224495) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Marshall Islands | Virola cancellata (77985) Virola incisa (77975) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Marshall Islands | Virola cancellata (43322) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Myristica sp. (168889) | |
| Holocene | Marshall Islands | Virola elegans (77974) Virola pagoda, Virola incisa (43306) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Myristica sp. (168937) |