Doyle, J. A., Jardine, S., & (1982) Afropollis, a new genus of angiosperm pollen, with notes on the Cretaceous palynostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of Northern Gondwana. Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration- Production-Elf- Aquitaine, 6, 39-117.
Parent taxon: Angiospermae according to M. I. A. Ibrahim 2002
Sister taxa: Aachenoxylon, Acer florigerum, Aceriphyllum, Achaenites, Actinidiophyllum, Aesculiphyllum, Amborellales, Ameghinoites, Ancoraecarpon, Anthites, Appomatoxia, Araliophyllum, Araliphyllum, Archaefructaceae, Aulacoxylon, Austrobaileyales, Berendtia, Bresciphyllum, Cantia, Carolites, Carpantholithes, Carpiniphyllum, Carpolithus, Cedrelospermites, Chondrophyton, Cinnamomiphyllum, Coronicutis, Corylocarpinus, Costicutis, Cucubalites, Dejaxpollenites, Dicotyledoneae, Dieune, Dodonaeaecarpum, Eorhiza, Ettingshausenia, Euanthus, Evodioxylon, Finiversicutis, Flabellicula, Globocarpon, Glossocarpellites, Hamamelidoxylon, Hesperidophyllum, Intuticutis, Involucrum, Jordania, Juglandiphyllum, Lagenella, Lagenoidea, Lamids, Lappacarpus, Lausaticutis, Leyrida, Limnophyllum, Magnoliids, Mesangiosperms, Monocarpellites, Monocotyledoneae, Montsechia, Montsechites, Morophyllum, Mulleroxylon, Naiadaceae, Nymphaeales, Ochthodocaryon, Ornoxylon, Palackya, Pandanophyllum, Papillopollis, Pataloxylon, Phyllodermium, Pilicoronicutis, Pilisolicutis, Plantaginopsis, Platycoila, Pleiacron, Proteophyllum, Proteopsis, Protorchis, Retimonocolpites, Rhamnophyllum, Rhoedales, Rhoophyllum, Riboidoxylon, Rohlfsia, Ronzocarpon, Rosenkrantzia, Rosids, Rottia, Sabulia, Sahnipushpam, Salicinoxylon, Salicites, Sassendorfites, Saxonicutis, Schafhautlia, Sendelia, Sezannia, Silicophyllum, Sjogrenia, Staphidoides, Statzia, Staubia, Stephanoxylon, Suevioxylon, Symphorocarpophyllum, Ternstroemioxylon, Tetracolpites, Tetrapollis, Tetraporopollenites, Thuringicutis, Triphyllum, Triplicarpus, Tubericutis, Virgaticutis, Wessexia, Woburnia, Xulinosprionites, Yubaria
Subtaxa: Afropollis jardinus Afropollis kahramanensis Afropollis operculatus Afropollis schrankii Afropollis zonatus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (4 collections), Brazil (67), Colombia (23), Egypt (98), France (1), Ghana (9), Israel (1), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Nigeria (31), Peru (1), Sudan (22)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1)
Total: 260 collections including 298 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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