Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Parent taxon: Fagaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Berry 1914, Brown 1959, Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1926, Liu et al. 1996 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Amentogerdiopollenites, Amplobalanus, Antiquacupula, Carpinites, Castaneophyllum, Castanopsis, Castanoxylon, Cupuliferoipollenites, Dryobalanus, Fagophyllum, Fagopsis, Fagoxylon, Fagus, Galla, Lithocarpus, Nephelites, Parafagus, Parvobalanus, Pasania, Pasianopsis, Protofagacea, Pseudofagus, Quercinium, Querciphyllum, Quercophyllum, Quercoxylon, Quercus
Subtaxa: Castanea atavia Castanea castaneaefolia Castanea claibornensis Castanea dolicophylla Castanea fujiyamae Castanea intermedia Castanea protoantiqua Castanea pulchella Castanea pumila Castanea sativa
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of China (2), Germany (1), Japan (1), Portugal (8), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (2)
• Neogene of China (1)
• Miocene of China (5), Germany (5), Japan (3), Poland (2), United States (11: California, Massachusetts, Montana, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Maryland, Montana)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (3: Colorado)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (3), United States (7: Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Paleocene of United States (12: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Tertiary of Japan (1)
Total: 81 collections including 82 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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