Angiospermae - Santalales - Loranthaceae
Parent taxon: Santalales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Anacolosidites, Balanophoraceae, Eremolepidaceae, Exocarpos, Medusandraceae, Misodendraceae, Olacaceae, Opiliaceae, Santalaceae, Schoepfiaceae
Subtaxa: Enantioblastos Gothanipollis Loranthacites Loranthella Loranthophyllum Loranthus Magnicutis Moquiniella Oryctanthus Phoradendron Psittacanthus Scollardia Syncolporites Viscophyllum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (21 collections), India (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (2)
• Miocene of Australia (4), China (1), Ecuador (1), Germany (1), India (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (5), Australia (2), Colombia (1), Germany (1), India (2), Myanmar (19), United States (10: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Canada (7: Manitoba), Colombia (2), United States (6: Wyoming), Venezuela (30)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Canada (2: Alberta), Egypt (3), Nigeria (1), Senegal (3), South Sudan (10), Sudan (1)
Total: 150 collections including 162 occurrences