Family Celastraceae Brown 1814 (bittersweet)

Angiospermae - Celastrales - Celastraceae

Parent taxon: Celastrales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016

See also Knowlton 1919, Knowlton 1926, Mabberley 2000 and MacGinitie 1941

Sister taxa: Lepidobotryaceae, Stackhousiaceae

Subtaxa: Asterocelastrus Canticarpum Cathispermum Celastrinanthium Celastrinites Celastrinoxylon Celastrocarpus Celastrus Elaeodendron Elaeodendroxylon Euonymus Goupioxylon Gyminda Gymnosporioxylon Lophopetalumoxylon Maytenus Mystroxylon Pachystima Perrottetia Perrottetioxylon

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (11 collections), India (7)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Uganda (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), China (4), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), Germany (2), India (1), Kenya (5), United States (4: Montana, Nevada, Washington)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Colorado)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of France (1), United States (9: California, Colorado, Texas, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)

• Paleogene of India (2)

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: British Columbia), United States (21: North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)

Total: 85 collections including 94 occurrences

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