†Gordonia egregia Lesquereux 1878 (tea)
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Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Theaceae
Alternative combination: Juglans egregia
Full reference: L. Lesquereux. 1878. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Auriferous Gravel Deposits of the Sierra Nevada. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 6(2):1-62
Belongs to Gordonia according to H. D. MacGinitie 1941
See also Knowlton 1919 and Lesquereux 1878
Sister taxon: Gordonia truncata
Type specimen: U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. plesiotypes nos. 2307, 2308, 2309, 2310, 2311, 231.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (9: California collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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