“…from India, and † Archeopaliurus from South America (Chen et al., ; Correa et al., ; Singh, Prasad, Kumar, Rana, & Singh, ). Younger fossils of the ziziphoids are, however, also distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, such as multiple Eocene (and younger) taxa of Ziziphus and Paliurus (Burge & Manchester, ; Li et al., ), and the Late Miocene fossils of Ceanothus and Distigouania (Axelrod, , ; Chambers & Poinar, ). This supports a subsequent dispersal of ziziphoids from South to North.…”