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Castanea (chestnut)
Taxonomy
Castanea was named by Miller (1754). It is extant.
It was assigned to Betulaceae by Knowlton (1926); and to Fagaceae by Knowlton (1899), Berry (1914), Knowlton (1919), Brown (1959), Liu et al. (1996) and Mabberley (2000).
It was assigned to Betulaceae by Knowlton (1926); and to Fagaceae by Knowlton (1899), Berry (1914), Knowlton (1919), Brown (1959), Liu et al. (1996) and Mabberley (2000).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Castanea Miller 1754 [chestnut]
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†Castanea atavia Unger 1850
†Castanea claibornensis Berry 1914
†Castanea dolicophylla Cockerell 1908
†Castanea fujiyamae Tanai 1970
†Castanea intermedia Lesquereux 1878
†Castanea protoantiqua Suzuki 1976
†Castanea pulchella Knowlton 1899
Castanea pumila Linnaeus 1753
Castanea sativa Miller 1786
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Reference: Kiessling 2009 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Paleocene to the top of the Holocene or 66.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma
Collections (81 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Paleocene | USA (Wyoming) | Castanea intermedia (40083 43302 57937 57945 58004) | |
Paleocene | USA (Colorado) | Castanea intermedia (40059 52826 52953 52957 53076 53081) | |
Paleocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea intermedia (53838) | |
Paleocene - Oligocene | Canada (Nunavut) | Castanea sp. (102066) | |
Tertiary | Japan (Aichi) | Castanea miocrenata (22819) | |
Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Castanea sp. (227994) | |
Eocene | China (Jilin) | Castanea miomollissima (223891) | |
Eocene | China (Guangxi) | Castanea miomollissima (223907) | |
Eocene | USA (Alaska) | Castanea cataneaefolia (112312) | |
Early/Lower Eocene | USA (Colorado) | Castanea intermedia (53070) | |
Middle Eocene | China (Jilin) | Castanea fujiyamae (179213) | |
Middle Eocene | USA (Wyoming) | Castanea pulchella (24087 24145 24157) | |
Bartonian | USA (Georgia) | Castanea claibornensis (212696) | |
Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | Castanea dolichophylla (24209) | |
Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | USA (Colorado) | Castanea dolichophylla (39837 39839 39849) | |
Early/Lower Oligocene | Japan (Fukuoka) | Castanea protoantiqua (224520) | |
Oligocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea spokanensis (23793) | |
Oligocene - Miocene | USA (Maryland) | Castanea sp. (231836) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene - Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Oregon) | Castanea basidentata (35921) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene | Czech Republic | Castanea atavia (224522) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea spolanensis (23330) | |
Miocene - Oligocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea dolichophylla, Castanea miomollissima (23975) | |
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | China (Jilin) | Castanea ungeri (223816) | |
Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Washington) | Castanea orientalis (103753) | |
Miocene | USA (Washington) | Castanea castaneaefolia (224391) | |
Miocene | Japan (Aichi) | Castanea sp. (22820) | |
Miocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea miomollissima (23973) | |
Miocene | USA (Massachusetts) | Castanea sp. (231784 231798 231824 231826) | |
Miocene | China (Hebei) | Castanea sativa (223818) | |
Miocene - Pliocene | Japan (Nagano) | Castanea miocrenata (22787 22788) | |
Neogene | China (Jilin) | Castanea miomollissima (223933) | |
Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | Castanea miomollissima (223803) | |
Langhian | USA (Virginia) | Castanea sp. (79793) | |
Langhian - Serravallian | Poland (Silesia) | Castanea mollissima (28442) Castanea sp. (28443) | |
Middle Miocene - Serravallian | Germany (Brandenburg) | Castanea atavia (27380) | |
Middle Miocene | China (Anhui) | Castanea miomollissima (223948) | |
Middle Miocene | USA (California) | Castanea spokanensis (35412) | |
Langhian - Messinian | Japan (Hirakata) | Castanea miocrenata (22744) | |
Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | Castanea sp. (126605 187324) | |
Serravallian | Germany (Brandenburg) | Castanea atavia (23044 23045 27512 27514) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Japan (Gunma) | Castanea miocrenata (22755) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | China (Yunnan) | Castanea miomollissima (222698) | |
Early/Lower Pliocene | Japan (Aichi) | Castanea sp. (168063) | |
Zanclean | Germany (North Rhine) | Castanea sativa (28134) | |
Pliocene | China (Zhejiang) | Castanea ungeri (223882) | |
Pliocene | Portugal | Castanea sp. (232112 232121 232124 232125 232144 232145 232146 232147) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | China (Yunnan) | Castanea miomollissima (224402) | |
Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Castanea sp. (22712) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Japan (Kyoto City) | Castanea sp. (168082) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (North Carolina) | Castanea sp. (61887) | |
Calabrian | USA (Virginia) | Castanea sp. (104698) | |
Holocene | Japan (Kyoto city) | Castanea sp. (168083) |